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2019 SESSION
SB 1421 Eminent domain; entry upon private property, calculation of just compensation, damages.
Introduced by: Mark D. Obenshain | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Eminent domain; entry upon private property; calculation of just compensation; damages. Makes various changes to provisions related to entry upon private property in an eminent domain proceeding, including (i) requiring that the number of persons for whom permission to inspect the premises is sought be included in a request for permission to inspect private property for the purposes of a project wherein the power of eminent domain may be exercised; (ii) requiring the notice of intent to enter the property to include all of the information contained in the request for permission to inspect the property; (iii) requiring the court to award fees for up to three experts or as many experts as are called by the petitioner at trial, whichever is greater, if the petitioner damages the property during its entry; (iv) removing the requirement that the damage must be done maliciously, willfully, or recklessly for the owner to be reimbursed for his costs; and (v) removing the option that the owner may be reimbursed for his costs if the court awards the owner actual damages in an amount 30 percent or more greater than the petitioner's final written offer made no later than 30 days after the filing of an answer in circuit court or the return date in general district court.
The bill also provides the method by which just compensation for the taking of property in an eminent domain proceeding is calculated. The bill provides that the body determining just compensation shall ascertain the value of the property to be taken and the damages, if any, that may accrue to the residue beyond the specific enhancement in value, if any. The bill further outlines the considerations that may be used to determine the market value of the property before the taking and the residue after the taking.
Finally, the bill allows a person to recover damages resulting from reformation, alteration, revision, amendment, or invalidation of a certificate in an eminent domain proceeding. The bill provides that an owner may recover costs incurred if the taking of land in an eminent domain proceeding is abandoned, in full or in part. The bill does not apply to condemnation proceedings in which the petitioner filed, prior to July 1, 2019, a petition in condemnation or a certificate of take or deposit.
FULL TEXT
- 01/08/19 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103612D pdf
- 02/23/19 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1421ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/22/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0788) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- House amendments adopted
- House amendments engrossed
HISTORY
- 01/08/19 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103612D
- 01/08/19 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/14/19 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N)
- 01/15/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/16/19 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/17/19 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/21/19 House: Placed on Calendar
- 01/21/19 House: Read first time
- 01/21/19 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/08/19 House: Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2
- 02/11/19 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/19 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (17-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/19 House: Read second time
- 02/20/19 House: Read third time
- 02/20/19 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/20/19 House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/20/19 House: Passed House with amendments (97-Y 2-N)
- 02/20/19 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (97-Y 2-N)
- 02/21/19 Senate: House amendments agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/19 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/23/19 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1421ER)
- 02/23/19 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/23/19 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/04/19 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
- 03/04/19 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- 03/22/19 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 788 (effective 7/1/19)
- 03/22/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0788)