Bill Text: TX SB2386 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of an electric cooperative to use the power of eminent domain to acquire certain real property.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB2386 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2386-Introduced.html
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By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 2386 |
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relating to the authority of an electric cooperative to use the | ||
power of eminent domain to acquire certain real property. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 161.125, Utilities Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 161.125. EMINENT DOMAIN. (a) An electric cooperative | ||
may exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner provided by | ||
state law for acquiring private property for public use. The power | ||
does not apply to state property or property of a political | ||
subdivision in this state. | ||
(b) An electric cooperative may not exercise the power of | ||
eminent domain to acquire an interest in real property to drill, | ||
mine, or produce from that property oil, gas, geothermal resources, | ||
geothermal/geopressured resources, or lignite, coal, sulphur, | ||
uranium, plutonium, or other minerals that belong to another person | ||
regardless of whether the material is in place or is in the process | ||
of being drilled, mined, or produced. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies 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. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |