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HR 3062 114th Congress House Energy Electric power generation and transmission Federal-Indian relations Intergovernmental relations Land transfers Land use and conservation State and local government operations

APPROVAL Act

Introduced: July 14, 2015 Introduced by: Womack, Steve Republican · Arkansas See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 12 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 8, 2016
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 669.
Dec 8, 2016
Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged.
Dec 8, 2016
Referred sequentially to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce for a period ending not later than Dec. 8, 2016 for consideration of such provisions of the bill as fall within the jurisdiction of that committee pursuant to clause 1(f) of rule X..
Dec 8, 2016
Reported by the Committee on 114-856, Part I.
Jun 15, 2016
Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 19 - 11.
Jun 15, 2016
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Jun 14, 2016
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Jun 14, 2016
Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans Discharged.
Oct 28, 2015
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Aug 31, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
Jul 14, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Jul 14, 2015
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land Act or the APPROVAL Act

(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to prohibit the Department of Energy and the Southwestern and Western Area Power Administration from using the power of eminent domain to implement modernization of electricity transmission infrastructure, unless they have received explicit permission to do so by: (1) the state governor and the head of each applicable public utility commission or public service commission of the affected state, and (2) the head of the governing body of each Indian tribe whose land would be affected.

An electricity transmission infrastructure project, to the greatest extent practicable, must be sited upon either an existing federal right-of-way or upon federal land managed by either: (1) the Bureau of Land Management, (2) the Forest Service, (3) the Bureau of Reclamation, or (4) the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

What's happening now December 8, 2016

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 669.

 Committees of jurisdiction 3
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Republican 3