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Read. Follow. Verify.Pennsylvania House Bill 825 Directs Public Utility Commission to Regulate and Penalize Abandoned Double Utility Poles
Last action · June 25, 2025: Referred to CONSUMER PROTECTION AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE, June 25, 2025Sponsors: Alec Ryncavage and 21 others
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What This Bill Would Do
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission is required to initiate a rulemaking process within 90 days to establish rules, timelines, and compensation procedures for the removal and relocation of s and attached infrastructure. s face annual registration mandates, surety bond requirements, and civil penalties for failing to timely migrate equipment from damaged poles. The act takes effect in 60 days.
Utility customers and local residents are impacted by streetscape clutter and safety hazards from lingering double poles, while telecommunication and cable companies face mandatory registration, strict removal deadlines, and financial liability for un-migrated equipment.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Attached infrastructure owners
Attached infrastructure owners must comply with annual registration, facility migration deadlines, surety bond requirements, and potential civil penalties for noncompliance.
Public utility pole owners
Public utility pole owners gain explicit procedures and compensation mechanisms to notify attachers, remove abandoned attachments, and recover costs without charging ratepayers.
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Procedural history
11 actions- Jun 25, 2025SenateCommitteeReferred to CONSUMER PROTECTION AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE, June 25, 2025
- Jun 25, 2025SenateIn the Senate
- Jun 25, 2025HouseFloorThird consideration and final passage, June 25, 2025 (202-1)
- Jun 25, 2025HouseCommitteeRe-reported as committed, June 25, 2025
- Jun 24, 2025HouseRe-committed to APPROPRIATIONS, June 24, 2025
- Jun 24, 2025HouseFloorSecond consideration, June 24, 2025
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- Jun 23, 2025HouseRemoved from table, June 23, 2025
- Mar 18, 2025HouseLaid on the table, March 18, 2025
- Mar 18, 2025HouseIntroducedFirst consideration, March 18, 2025
- Mar 18, 2025HouseCommitteeReported as committed, March 18, 2025
- Mar 6, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to CONSUMER PROTECTION, TECHNOLOGY AND UTILITIES, March 6, 2025
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance65How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy25Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
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