SB1711 • 2026

Modifies provisions related to utility colocation along highway corridors

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: McCreery, Tracy; House handler: N/A
Last action: 2026-05-07
Official status: Second Read and Referred S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy & the Environment Committee
Effective date: 2026-08-28

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Modifies provisions related to utility colocation along highway corridors

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What This Bill Does

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The State Highways and Transportation Commission and the Missouri Department of Transportation shall allow the installation, operation, and maintenance of electric transmission facilities within highway rights of way.
The Commission and Department shall develop uniform criteria for colocation of transmission facilities within highway rights of ways.
The duty of the Commission and Department shall include providing reasonable time lines and procedures for review and approval of colocation requests, ensuring safety of the public and infrastructure, avoiding duplication of corridors, and imposing reasonable conditions that shall not interfere with colocation.

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Bill History

2026-05-07 S1606
Second Read and Referred S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy & the Environment Committee
2026-02-23 S423
S First Read

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SB 1711 - This act modifies provisions relating to utility colocation along highway corridors.

The State Highways and Transportation Commission and the Missouri Department of Transportation shall allow the installation, operation, and maintenance of electric transmission facilities within highway rights of way. The Commission and Department shall develop uniform criteria for colocation of transmission facilities within highway rights of ways. The duty of the Commission and Department shall include providing reasonable time lines and procedures for review and approval of colocation requests, ensuring safety of the public and infrastructure, avoiding duplication of corridors, and imposing reasonable conditions that shall not interfere with colocation.

This act is identical to provisions in SB 838 (2026) and HB 3456 (2026).
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SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1711
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR MCCREERY .
7152S.02I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To amend chapter 227, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to utility colocation
along highway corridors.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 227, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto 1
one new section, to be known as section 227.241, to read as 2
follows:3
227.241. 1. For the purposes of this section, 1
"electric transmissions facilities" shall include public 2
utilities, investor owned utilities, utility cooperatives, 3
municipal utilities, transmission only entities, and 4
merchant transmission line developers. 5
2. For the purposes of this section, the term 6
"highway" shall mean the public thoroughfare for vehicles, 7
including public interstate highways, freeways, controlled 8
access highways, and state and county highways. 9
3. Within highway rights-of-way, subject to reasonable 10
engineering, safety, and access requirements, the commission 11
and the department of transportation shall allow the 12
installation, operation, and maintenance of electric 13
transmission facilities, including high voltage and 14
interstate transmission facilities. 15
4. The commission and the Missouri department of 16
transportation shall develop uniform criteria for 17
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longitudinal and parallel colocation of transmission 18
facilities within highway rights-of-way. 19
5. The duties of the commission and the department 20
shall include: 21
(1) Providing reasonable timelines and procedure for 22
review and approval of colocation requests; 23
(2) Ensuring the safety of the public and 24
infrastructure; 25
(3) Avoiding duplication of corridors where colocation 26
is feasible; and 27
(4) Imposing reasonable conditions for construction, 28
right-of-way access, maintenance coordination, and 29
restoration but shall not interfere with colocation. 30
6. The commission and department shall promulgate and 31
enforce reasonable rules and regulations to implement the 32
provisions of this section. Any rule or portion of a rule, 33
as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is created 34
under the authority delegated in this section shall become 35
effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of 36
the provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 37
536.028. This section and chapter 536 are nonseverable and 38
if any of the powers vested with the general assembly 39
pursuant to chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective 40
date, or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently 41
held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking 42
authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 43
2026, shall be invalid and void. 44
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