Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Planning and Development Committee on January 29, 2019. The 2019 session has ended.
2019 Regular Session
Senate Bill 768
AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF EMINENT DOMAIN.
What it does
The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.
To (1) require state agencies to attempt to negotiate a purchase before they may take real property by eminent domain, (2) create an Office of the Property Rights Ombudsman, which shall have responsibilities including, but not limited to, arbitrating and mediating disputes between agencies and property owners, (3) require state agencies to pay the maximum benefits provided pursuant to the state and federal Uniform Relocation Assistance Acts, and (4) require the legislative body of a municipality in which an agency operates to vote separately to approve the acquisition of each parcel by purchase or condemnation.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the Senate
Sponsor
Its course
January 29 to January 29, 2019, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action1 action on 1 day
In the SenateJan 29 to Jan 29 · stopped0 days
Planning and Development CommitteeJan 29 to Jan 29 · stopped0 days
Text
Each version as the General Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.
In the Senate Jan 29
- Jan 29Introduced and sent to Planning and Development Committee
All 1 actions, as published
- Jan 29REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses