WA People
BILL · 2015–16 SESSION

HB 2047: Eminent domain/owner option

Providing an option for the owners of private property to be acquired for electrical transmission line sites or routes by eminent domain proceedings.

Summary

  • Authorizes a property owner, when his or her property is proposed to be acquired for the construction of a site or route for an electrical transmission line by eminent domain proceedings, to require the condemnor to condemn a fee interest in any amount of contiguous land that the property owner wholly owns in undivided fee and elects in writing to transfer to the condemnor.

From the Bill Digest (HB 2047), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedFeb 9, 2015
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Brandon Vick (R-18)
Introduced
February 9, 2015 in the House
Last action
March 10, 2016

AN ACT Relating to a cause of action for a property owner to require that an easement interest or right-of-way for an electrical transmission line over and adjacent to the owner's lands be converted into a fee taking;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Brandon Vick (R-18)

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  4. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  5. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  6. First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 2047 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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