Bill Text: TX SB553 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 553 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the acquisition of certain real property in conjunction with the acquisition of real property for a public use through eminent domain procedures.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 14-4)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-26 - Left pending in committee [SB553 Detail]

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	By: Schwertner, et al.	S.B. No. 553
	(In the Senate - Filed January 31, 2019; February 21, 2019,
	read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
	March 13, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
	Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 13, 2019,
	sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 553	By: Nelson


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the acquisition of certain real property in conjunction
	with the acquisition of real property for a public use through
	eminent domain procedures.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 402.031, Government Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows:
	(c-1) The statement must disclose that a condemning entity,
	other than an entity acquiring property as authorized under
	Subchapter D, Chapter 203, Transportation Code, that makes an
	initial offer under Section 21.0113, Property Code, that includes
	real property that the entity does not seek to acquire by
	condemnation shall in the initial offer:
	(1) separately identify the real property that the
	entity does not seek to acquire by condemnation; and
	(2) make an offer for the real property that the entity
	does not seek to acquire by condemnation separate from the offer
	made for the real property sought to be acquired by condemnation.
	SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Property Code, is
	amended by adding Section 21.0114 to read as follows:
	Sec. 21.0114. OFFER TO ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL PROPERTY;
	EXCEPTION. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a condemning
	entity that makes an initial offer under Section 21.0113 that
	includes real property that the entity does not seek to acquire by
	condemnation shall in the initial offer:
	(1) separately identify the real property that the
	entity does not seek to acquire by condemnation; and
	(2) make an offer for the real property that the entity
	does not seek to acquire by condemnation separate from the offer
	made for the real property sought to be acquired by condemnation.
	(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to an acquisition of real
	property under Subchapter D, Chapter 203, Transportation Code.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.

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