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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 703

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Relating to: planting trees, shrubs, or hedges on the side of certain highways. (FE)

Forestry Plants Road Town

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, a person who owns land that adjoins a highway may, with

the approval of the public authority maintaining the highway, plant, cultivate, and

maintain trees, shrubs, or hedges on the side of the highway contiguous to and within

ten feet of that person's land. Under this bill, if the person who owns the land that

adjoins a highway is a town, the town may, with the approval of the public authority

maintaining the highway, authorize another person to plant trees, shrubs, or hedges

on the land.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Spiros (R)

1 cosponsors

Petrowski (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation, Ayes 14, Noes 0

Passed 14–0 Feb 12, 2016 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Jan 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representative Spiros; cosponsored by Senator Petrowski

  2. Jan 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation

  3. Jan 21, 2016 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Feb 2, 2016 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Feb 11, 2016 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  6. Feb 12, 2016 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation, Ayes 14, Noes 0

  7. Feb 12, 2016 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  8. Feb 16, 2016 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 1:31 PM on 2-18-2016 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 29

  9. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Laid on the table

  10. Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1