2010 Senate Bill 1508

Mandate burying certain electric transmission lines

Introduced in the Senate

Sept. 22, 2010

Introduced by Sen. Tupac Hunter (D-5)

To require electric transmission lines to be placed underground, unless the Public Service Commission gives permission otherwise. The bill would also ban placing an unburied line within 330 feet of a school or residential area.

Referred to the Committee on Energy Policy and Public Utilities