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2011 SESSION
HB 1988 Property conveyances; broadens statutory for ownership of space opened underground by coal removal.
Introduced by: Terry G. Kilgore | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Property conveyances; mineral mining; ownership of underground void. Provides that, unless expressly excepted by the instrument creating an interest in a coal mineral estate, the owner or the lessee of coal retains the right to any coal remaining in place after the removal of surrounding coal, as well as the shell, container chamber, passage, space and void opened underground that was created by the removal of the coal. Such void opened underground may be used by the owner or lessee for any purpose in the furtherance of removal of coal. The bill will not affect contractual obligations entered into prior to July 1, 2011, or any determination of ownership rights in natural gas or coalbed methane.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/11 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/11 11102476D pdf | impact statement
- 02/02/11 House: Committee substitute printed 11104302D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/02/11 House: Substitute bill reprinted 11104302D-H1 pdf | impact statement
HISTORY
- 01/11/11 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/11 11102476D
- 01/11/11 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/31/11 House: Referred from Courts of Justice by voice vote
- 01/31/11 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 02/02/11 House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (14-Y 8-N)
- 02/02/11 House: Committee substitute printed 11104302D-H1
- 02/02/11 House: Substitute bill reprinted 11104302D-H1
- 02/03/11 House: Read first time
- 02/04/11 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/06/11 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/06/11 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/07/11 House: Read second time
- 02/07/11 House: Committee substitute agreed to 11104302D-H1
- 02/07/11 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1988H1
- 02/08/11 House: Read third time and passed House (58-Y 40-N 1-A)
- 02/08/11 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (58-Y 40-N 1-A)
- 02/09/11 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/09/11 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/21/11 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)