2026 House Bill 6044

Highways: other; failing to remove an obstruction in the right of way; prohibit from being used as evidence of abandonment.

A bill to amend 1925 PA 368, entitled “An act to prohibit obstructions and encroachments on public highways; to provide for the removal of obstructions and encroachments on public highways; to prescribe the conditions under which telegraph, telephone, power, and other public utility companies, cable television companies, broadband companies, and municipalities may enter upon, construct, and maintain telegraph, telephone, power, cable television, or broadband lines, pipe lines, wires, cables, poles, conduits, sewers, and like structures upon, over, across, or under public roads, bridges, streets, and waters; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies,” by amending section 20 (MCL 247.190).

Introduced in the House

June 4, 2026

Introduced by Rep. Bill Schuette (R-95) and two co-sponsors

Co-sponsored by Reps. Parker Fairbairn (R-107) and Alabas Farhat (D-3)

Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure