S. 4680 · 116th Congress
Ending Natural Gas Companies' Seizure of Land for Export Profits Act
Key: what the circles and colors mean
Each circle is a bill. The ring fills as it moves through Congress:
Under the number: the Yea · Nay count of its final (or latest) recorded vote. On a member's page, the small badge is how that member voted: Y Yea / Aye, N Nay / No, P Present, – Not voting.
Gold and violet are only for Yea and Nay; they never mean a party. A member's party is the letter on their photo.
Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 116th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.
D
MerkleySponsor1 cosponsor · 1 D
1 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.
Ending Natural Gas Companies' Seizure of Land for Export Profits Act
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Sep 23, 2020
Ending Natural Gas Companies' Seizure of Land for Export Profits Act
This bill addresses jurisdiction of U.S. district courts over eminent domain proceedings and the use of eminent domain by the holder of a certificate of public convenience and necessity to acquire land or property with respect to natural gas pipelines.
Specifically, the bill
- provides that U.S. districts courts shall not have jurisdiction to condemn property in which a state owns any interest, and
- prohibits the holder of a certification of public convenience and necessity that authorizes construction and operation of a natural gas pipeline from exercising the right of eminent domain for a pipeline designed to export liquefied natural gas to a foreign country.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Ending Natural Gas Companies' Seizure of Land for Export Profits Act
Latest action (Sep 23, 2020): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Policy area: Energy · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Sep 23, 2020
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.