House Energy & Environment

The Energy and Environment Committee will come to order. Welcome everybody. Ms. Falco, please call the roll. Representatives Barone. Excuse me. Goldstein. Here. Jackson. Here. Joseph. Right here. Esko. Here. Rootno. Here. Saw. Excused. Smith. Here. Wilford. Here. Woog. Excused. Velasco. Excused. Mr. Chair, I'm here. We've got a great show for you here, folks. Today we got three bills we're going to start off with. House Bill 1278 brought to you by Representative Richardson. Representative Richardson, whenever you're ready, tell us about your bill. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I've got a fairly lengthy opening presentation. It's not going to be. It hopefully will not put anyone to sleep. But this is a very a bill that's pretty simple in concept but it touches many areas our citizens, their property rights, local government processes, puc, utilities and the courts. So I want to make sure that it's kind of properly framed before witnesses do come up. But as most of you know, I spent eight years as a county commissioner in Albert county and served on a planning commission. Beforehand I have had energy projects come through and been part of the approval process for transmission, utility scale, solar and…