Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibit hazardous liquid pipelines from being granted eminent domain rights in Iowa.

Highlights:

• Specifies that the limitation on the definition of public use, public purpose, or public improvement does not apply to the establishment, relocation, or improvement of a road or the establishment of a railway under the supervision of the Department of Transportation or to an airport (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that this limitation also does not apply to utilities, persons, companies, or corporations under the jurisdiction of the Iowa Utilities Commission or to any other utility conferred the right by statute to condemn private property (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that these purpose do not includes the construction of hazardous liquid pipelines for the transportation or transmission of liquefied carbon dioxide or aboveground merchant lines (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that this bill comes into effect upon enactment (Sec. 1).

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