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3 Attributes of a Private Property Rights Group in a Pipeline State. Billboard Campaign.

The group: 80 Feet is Enough

The group’s message: No Eminent Domain for Private Gain for Oil Pipelines (picture at link)

How are they getting the word out? Billboards

WSAU | “80 Feet Is Enough!” Reveals Billboard

WXPR | Group Wants To Stop Enbridge Emiment Domain Efforts

Just the Facts. SB 627. The Eminent Domain Package via Senator Schwertner.

SB 627

The author list: Schwertner | Birdwell | Burton | Creighton | Hall | Huffines | Kolkhorst | Nichols | Seliger | Zaffirini
What it does: Sets up rules for precondemnation access such as:
- An owner can refuse entry
- A condeming entity has to pay for damanges done during precondemnation access and inspection
- If a condemning entity uses a permission form, the form has to meet 4 standards
What’s the hook? Currently pre-condemantion access has very few rules

Just the Facts. SB 628. The Eminent Domain Package via Senator Schwertner.

SB 628

The author list: Schwertner | Birdwell | Burton | Campbell | Creighton | Hall | Huffines | Kolkhorst | Nichols | Zaffirini
What it does:
- eliminates acquiring property as progress for a project that qualifies for eminent domain and thus repurchase of the property if the project isn’t moving
- requires a condeming entity to meet 3 of 5 , instead of 2 of 7, elements that define project progress
What’s the hook? The talk of eminent domain being used for projects but then never…

Just the Facts. SB 626. The Eminent Domain Package via Senator Schwertner.

SB 626

The author list: Schwertner | Birdwell | Burton | Creighton | Hall | Huffines | Huffman | Kolkhorst | Nichols | Seliger | Zaffirini
What it does: Requires a separate offer for any property “not reasonably necessary to complete the public use”
What’s the hook? The land in this additional offer wouldn’t otherwise trigger eminent domain

Tarheels work new eminent domain grant- to connect customers. 3 Points to Know + read the bill.

North Carolina Legislature is considering HB 10 which would extend the authority of eminent domain by allowing it to connect customers. The bill’s language:

“Connection of Customers. – For the public use, private condemnors, local public condemnors, and other public condemnors in subsections (a), (b), (b1), and (c) of this section shall possess the power of eminent domain and may acquire by purchase, gift, or condemnation any property for the connection of any customer or customers.”

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No eminent domain for private gain. Cornhuskers target Energy.

A bill to allow for private sale of electricity in Nebraska also includes a laundry list of eminent domain prohibitions for all electric generators and distributors.

Nebraksa’s LB 660 would prohibit eminent domain for:

generation
transmission
distribution

If that isn’t enough, a stand alone bill calling for no eminent domain for the electric industry also exists in LB 547

Omaha World Herald | Nebraska lawmakers introduce bills that would end public power companies’ monopoly, use of…

HB1050. Texas Property Freedom Act. 3 Points from the Author.

HB 1050 by Valoree Swanson would:

“protect the financial sustainability of property owners”
“will repeal property taxes”
5 years & 2 legislative sessions would be the window to replace the property tax

Rep. Valoree Swanson | Representative Swanson Files HB 1050: The Texas Property Freedom