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H.R. 3062: APPROVAL Act

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H.R. 3062: APPROVAL Act

114th Congress · introduced 2015-07-14 · Energy · Latest: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 669.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2015-07-14 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Womack, Steve [R-AR-3] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 669. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

APPROVAL Act

Plain summary

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land Act or the APPROVAL Act (Sec.2)This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to prohibit the Department of Energy and the Southwestern and Western Area Power Administration from using the power of eminent domain to implement modernization of electricity transmission infrastructure, unless they have received explicit permission to do so by: (1) the state governor and the head of each applicable public utility commission or public service commission of the affected state, and (2) the head of the governing body of each Indian tribe whose land would be affected. An electricity transmission infrastructure project, to the greatest extent practicable, must be sited upon either an existing federal right-of-way or upon federal land managed by either: (1) the Bureau of Land Management, (2) the Forest Service, (3) the Bureau of Reclamation, or (4) the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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Official text

APPROVAL Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Reported to House without amendment, Part I)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Womack, Steve [R-AR-3] · 3 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 3062, APPROVAL Act (2016-11-21)

Cosponsors on this site

J. French Hill (R-AR), Eric A. "Rick" Crawford (R-AR), Bruce Westerman (R-AR)

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Womack, Steve [R-AR-3] reported raising $2.4 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong114-hr3062 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114