Bill Text: TX SB741 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to compensation to a property owner for property acquired by an entity with eminent domain authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-21 - Referred to State Affairs [SB741 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB741-Introduced.html
  85R4646 BEE-F
 
  By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 741
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to compensation to a property owner for property acquired
  by an entity with eminent domain authority.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 21.0113, Property Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
         (c)  For purposes of this section, a bona fide offer may
  include compensation to the property owner in the form of a royalty
  or percentage of the net profits generated from the project
  necessitating the acquisition.
         SECTION 2.  Section 21.041, Property Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 21.041.  EVIDENCE. (a)  As the basis for assessing
  actual damages to a property owner from a condemnation, the special
  commissioners shall admit evidence on:
               (1)  the value of the property being condemned;
               (2)  the injury to the property owner;
               (3)  the benefit to the property owner's remaining
  property; [and]
               (4)  the use of the property for the purpose of the
  condemnation; and
               (5)  the value of any compensation described by Section
  21.0113(c) that the condemning entity has offered the property
  owner in connection with the proposed condemnation.
         (b)  The special commissioners may admit evidence on the
  price paid for pipeline or power line rights-of-way in privately
  negotiated transactions made in the absence of a potential, actual,
  or threatened condemnation.
         SECTION 3.  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this
  section, Sections 21.0113 and 21.041, Property Code, as amended by
  this Act, apply only to the acquisition of real property in
  connection with an initial offer made under Section 21.0113,
  Property Code, on or after the effective date of this Act. An
  acquisition of real property in connection with an initial offer
  made under Section 21.0113, Property Code, before the effective
  date of this Act is governed by the law applicable to the
  acquisition immediately before the effective date of this Act, and
  that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         (b)  Section 21.041(b), Property Code, as added by this Act,
  applies only to an eminent domain proceeding commenced on or after
  the effective date of this Act. An eminent domain proceeding
  commenced before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
  law applicable to the proceeding immediately before the effective
  date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that
  purpose.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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