S 641
117th Congress
Senate
Energy
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Judicial review and appeals
Land transfers
Licensing and registrations
Oil and gas
Pipelines
Property rights
Public participation and lobbying
Landowner Fairness Act
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 9, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Mar 9, 2021
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Landowner Fairness Act
This bill limits the use of eminent domain to take private property for the construction and operation of a natural gas pipeline facility.
Specifically, this bill ends the legal presumption that natural gas exports are by definition in the public interest. In addition, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission must consider certain factors in issuing certificates of public convenience and necessity for natural gas projects. Finally, the bill prohibits the holder of a certification of public convenience and necessity from exercising the right of eminent domain for a pipeline designed to export liquefied natural gas to a foreign country.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Committees of jurisdiction
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