{"id":737,"date":"2017-02-16T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2017\/02\/16\/2017-just-the-facts-kolkhorst-sb-740\/"},"modified":"2017-02-16T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T23:30:00","slug":"2017-just-the-facts-kolkhorst-sb-740","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2017-just-the-facts-kolkhorst-sb-740\/","title":{"rendered":"2017. Just the Facts. Kolkhorst. SB 740."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=85R&amp;Bill=SB740\">SB 740<\/a>\u00a0Relating to the acquisition of property by an entity with eminent domain authority.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Requires disclosure of new appraisals within 10 days or 3 days before a special commissioners hearing<\/li>\n<li>Allows a property owner to be awarded attorney fees if the amount awarded is 20% higher than the final offer<\/li>\n<li>Defines a list of new requirements for the bona fide good faith offer such as:\n<ul>\n<li>easement details<\/li>\n<li>right to damages from construction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Requiring that a condeming entity pay an award before an appeal can be filed by eithe rpaying the property owner, posting a bond, or depositing an amount with the court<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=85R&amp;Bill=SB740\">SB 740<\/a>\u00a0Relating to the acquisition of property by an entity with eminent domain authority.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Requires disclosure of new appraisals within 10 days or 3 days before a special commissioners hearing<\/li>\n<li>Allows a property owner to be awarded attorney fees if the amount awarded is 20% higher than the final offer<\/li>\n<li>Defines a list of new requirements for the bona fide good faith offer such as:\n<ul>\n<li>easement details<\/li>\n<li>right to damages from construction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Requiring that a condeming entity pay an award before an\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,9,6,20,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-legislative-issues","category-compensation","category-pipelines-common-carriers","category-process-procedure","category-transmission-lines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}