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Forestry: electrical transmission or distribution lines: clearances: notice and opportunity to be heard.

This bill did not become law and its session has ended, so it can no longer move. It would have to be reintroduced.

CA SB 396 · Senate Bill · 2021–2022

Stage
Session ended
Started in
Senate
Sponsors
2
Latest action
Aug 31, 2022

What it does

Existing law authorizes any person who owns, controls, operates, or maintains any electrical transmission or distribution line to traverse land as necessary, regardless of land ownership or express permission to traverse land from the landowner, after providing notice and an opportunity to be heard to the landowner, to prune trees to maintain clearances, as provided, and to abate, by pruning or removal, any hazardous, dead, rotten, diseased, or structurally defective live trees. Existing law authorizes this abatement at the full discretion of the person that owns, controls, operates, or maintains the electrical transmission or distribution lines, except for certain applicable minimum…

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Where it stands

This bill did not become law and its session has ended, so it can no longer move. It would have to be reintroduced.

  1. Introduced (Done)

  2. Committee (Done)

  3. Floor (Current step)

    Passed both chambers · Aug 31, 2022

  4. Law (Needs attention)

    The session ended first

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