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2023 SESSION

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SENATE BILL NO. 1018
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor
on January 23, 2023)
(Patron Prior to Substitute--Senator Edwards)
A BILL to amend and reenact § 56-345.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to railroad companies; notice of certain action.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 56-345.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 56-345.1. Notice; consolidation, merger, abandonments, or discontinuances.

Any railroad company operating in the Commonwealth that submits an application to the federal government for consolidation, merger, abandonment, or discontinuance shall, contemporaneously with such application, notify the Commission and, the Governor, the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of Natural Resources, the Director of the Department of Rail and Public Transportation, and the Executive Director of the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority of such action.