Easements
Alaska 34th Legislature
Easements & Rights Of Way In State Parks [HB-220]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
An Act relating to easements and rights-of-way in state parks.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin McCabe
Read The First Time - Referrals on 05/07/2025
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Railroad Land; Consent For Public Use [HB-142]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Infrastructure ]
An Act relating to use of railroad land for public purposes.
Sponsored by: Rep. Charles Kopp
Read The First Time - Referrals on 03/21/2025
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Railroad Utility Corridors [HB-136]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Energy ]
An Act relating to use of railroad easements.
Sponsored by: Rep. Charles Kopp
Tra Rpt Cs(tra) 3dp 1nr 3am on 05/09/2025
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Chugach State Park Easements [HB-128]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
An Act relating to Chugach State Park; and providing for an effective date.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ky Holland
Read The First Time - Referrals on 03/10/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Property Rights Protection Act of 2025 [HB-1396]
[Energy ]
[Real Estate ]
[Property Tax ]
[Environmental ]
Prohibiting certain persons from exercising a right of condemnation to acquire property for the purpose of constructing a power line or a certain generating station that produces electricity from wind energy or solar energy; and prohibiting the State or any of its instrumentalities or political subdivisions from acquiring by condemnation property that is encumbered by certain conservation easements or will be used for the construction of a power line or a certain generating station.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
First Reading Economic Matters on 02/07/2025
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South Dakota 2025 Regular Session
Establish the minimum compensation for an easement obtained through the exercise of eminent domain for a project affecting multiple landowners. [HB-1251]
[Real Estate ]
[Property Tax ]
Establish the minimum compensation for an easement obtained through the exercise of eminent domain for a project affecting multiple landowners.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tony Randolph
Scheduled For Hearing on 02/19/2025
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South Dakota 2025 Regular Session
Protect landowners from the use of deception, fraud, harassment, intimidation, misrepresentation, or threat, in acquiring easements or easement options. [HB-1249]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Property Tax ]
Protect landowners from the use of deception, fraud, harassment, intimidation, misrepresentation, or threat, in acquiring easements or easement options.
Sponsored by: Rep. Phil Jensen
Senate Do Pass Amended, Failed, Yeas 17, Nays 16. S.j. 494 on 03/10/2025
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South Dakota 2025 Regular Session
Remove the prohibition against a landowner having an easement on the landowner's property. [SB-215]
[Real Estate ]
[Property Tax ]
Remove the prohibition against a landowner having an easement on the landowner's property.
Sponsored by: Sen. Casey Crabtree
Signed By The Governor On March 31, 2025 S.j. 539 on 03/31/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act) [HB-1036]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
Altering the factors the Public Service Commission must consider before taking final action on a certificate of public convenience and necessity; establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the construction and operation of a certain distributed solar energy generating system; requiring the Power Plant Research Program, by July 1, 2026, to develop and submit to the Commission proposed siting and design requirements and licensing conditions; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. C.T. Wilson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 624 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Energy Resource Adequacy and Planning Act [HB-1037]
[Energy ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Safety ]
Establishing the Strategic Energy Planning Office; requiring the Office to develop a Comprehensive Wholesale Energy Markets and Bulk Power System Risk Report and examine certain scenarios to support the development of the Risk Report; requiring the Risk Report to assess wholesale energy market financial resource adequacy and reliability risks and to identify any necessary cost-effective solutions that ensure electric system reliability while meeting the State's energy policy goals; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Brian Crosby
Vetoed By The Governor (policy) on 05/16/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Energy Resource Adequacy and Planning Act [SB-909]
[Energy ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Safety ]
Establishing the Strategic Energy Planning Office; requiring the Office to develop a Comprehensive Wholesale Energy Markets and Bulk Power System Risk Report and examine certain scenarios to support the development of the Risk Report; requiring the Risk Report to assess wholesale energy market financial resource adequacy and reliability risks and to identify any necessary cost-effective solutions that ensure electric system reliability while meeting the State's energy policy goals; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Hester
Vetoed By The Governor (policy) on 05/16/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act) [SB-931]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
Altering the factors the Public Service Commission must consider before taking final action on a certificate of public convenience and necessity; establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the construction and operation of a certain distributed solar energy generating system; requiring the Power Plant Research Program, by July 1, 2026, to develop and submit to the Commission proposed siting and design requirements and licensing conditions; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Feldman
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 623 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Overhead Transmission Lines - Eminent Domain [SB-955]
[Energy ]
[Real Estate ]
[Property Tax ]
[Environmental ]
[Construction ]
Prohibiting a person constructing an overhead transmission line from exercising a right of condemnation to acquire property encumbered by a conservation easement; authorizing a certain property owner to bring an action for damages incurred as a result of a certain condemnation proceeding; and requiring that reasonable counsel fees be awarded to counsel for the defendant in a condemnation proceeding and that certain court costs be charged against the plaintiff under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris West
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Utah 2025 General Session
Public Waters Access Act Amendments [HB-386]
[Water ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Recreation ]
Public Waters Access Act Amendments
Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Chew
House/ Strike Enacting Clause In Clerk Of The House on 03/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Property Rights Protection Act of 2025 [SB-737]
[Energy ]
[Real Estate ]
[Property Tax ]
Prohibiting certain persons from exercising a right of condemnation to acquire property for the purpose of constructing a power line or a generating station that produces electricity from wind energy or solar energy; and prohibiting the State or any of its instrumentalities or political subdivisions from acquiring by condemnation property that is encumbered by certain conservation easements or will be used for the construction of a power line or a certain generating station.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Folden
Hearing Canceled on 03/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Carroll County - Public Facilities Bond [HB-833]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Community Development ]
[Construction ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Carroll County to borrow not more than $36,900,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of certain public facilities in Carroll County and to effect such borrowing by the issuance and sale at public or private sale of its general obligation bonds; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 423 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Natural Resources - Public Lands - Acquisition, Staffing, Operations, and Funding [HB-717]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Environmental ]
[Funding ]
[Real Estate ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Water ]
Altering provisions of law regarding the acquisition of real property by the Department of Natural Resources; establishing a Land and Property Management Program in the Department to process certain transactions; authorizing the Department and the Natural Resources Police to establish affiliated foundations; authorizing the Governor to transfer certain Program Open Space funds to the Department under certain circumstances; altering and repealing certain provisions of law regarding the use of Program Open Space local funding; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 443 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity – Overhead Transmission Lines – Conservation Easements [HB-640]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Real Estate ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Construction ]
Requiring the Public Service Commission to consider the impact of the development of overhead transmission lines on certain properties subject to an existing conservation easement in certain proceedings for a certificate of public convenience and necessity; and requiring the Commission to require an applicant for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the development of overhead transmission lines to consider alternative routes for transmission lines affecting conservation easements or alter proposed routes.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
First Reading Economic Matters on 01/23/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Eminent Domain - Agricultural and Conservation Easements - Prohibited Taking [HB-631]
[Agriculture ]
[Environmental ]
[Real Estate ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Property Tax ]
Prohibiting the State or any of its instrumentalities or political subdivisions from taking certain property that is subject to a perpetual agricultural or conservation easement.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/29/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Real Estate Development and Highway Rights-of-Way - Installation of Broadband Micro Conduits and Microducts [HB-626]
[Real Estate ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Construction ]
[Economic Development ]
Requiring the installation of micro conduits in any utility easement and building power or telecommunication rooms during the new construction or major improvement of certain commercial and residential premises; requiring that buried fiber optic cable installed in a highway right-of-way include conduit containing at least seven microducts; requiring the Department of Transportation or a unit of local government to ensure a broadband service provider has access to the conduit on a neutral and nondiscriminatory basis; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Phillips
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/17/2025