2025 bills / S.B. 235
S.B. 235 Natural Resources Ownership (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote (stopped here)
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill clarifies that geothermal resources underneath privately owned land belong to the person who owns that land. It also creates an exception to that rule and makes some technical wording changes.
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Official description
- clarifies the ownership of geothermal resources underlying land owned by a person
- provides an exception
- makes technical changes
Your legislators on this bill
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 235 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 235 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote, which it did not pass · Feb 10, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 0 no, 1 absentSenate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote, which it did not pass · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how