Bill Text: TX HB2076 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to establishing actual progress for the purposes of determining the right to repurchase real property from a condemning entity.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-16 - Referred to Business & Industry [HB2076 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2076-Introduced.html
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By: Schubert | H.B. No. 2076 |
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relating to establishing actual progress for the purposes of | ||
determining the right to repurchase real property from a condemning | ||
entity. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 21.101, Property Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(b) In this section, "actual progress" means the completion | ||
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(1) the performance of a significant amount of labor | ||
to develop the property or other property acquired for the same | ||
public use project for which the property owner's property was | ||
acquired; | ||
(2) the provision of a significant amount of materials | ||
to develop the property or other property acquired for the same | ||
public use project for which the property owner's property was | ||
acquired; | ||
(3) the hiring of and performance of a significant | ||
amount of work by an architect, engineer, or surveyor to prepare a | ||
plan or plat that includes the property or other property acquired | ||
for the same public use project for which the property owner's | ||
property was acquired; | ||
(4) application for state or federal funds to develop | ||
the property or other property acquired for the same public use | ||
project for which the property owner's property was acquired; or | ||
(5) application for a state or federal permit to | ||
develop the property or other property acquired for the same public | ||
use project for which the property owner's property was acquired. | ||
(b-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (b), for a navigation | ||
district or port authority, "actual progress" means: | ||
(1) the completion of one action described by | ||
Subsection (b); and | ||
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majority of the entity's governing body at a public hearing of a | ||
development plan for a public use project that indicates that the | ||
entity will not complete more than one action described by | ||
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of the date of acquisition of the property. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 21.101, Property Code, as amended by | ||
this Act, applies only to a real property interest acquired in | ||
connection with a condemnation proceeding in which the petition is | ||
filed on or after the effective date of this Act. A real property | ||
interest acquired in connection with a condemnation proceeding in | ||
which the petition is filed before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect immediately before that date, and that | ||
law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |