- “Many [Senators] still consider the privately financed plan a boondoggle”
- The bill prohibiting eminent domain for high speed rail has been sent to Local and Consent.
Austin American Statesman | Bills stalling or stopping bullet train pass Texas Senate committee
- Focused on the land owners experience. Including this quote from a member of the Board of Directors of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, “”Private law abiding citizens should not emerge from the eminent domain process battered, bruised and financially poorer by the deeds of condemnors who are acting as agents of the State of Texas,”
My Highland Plains | Texas Cattle Raisers Testify in Support of SB 740 for Eminent Domain Reform