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Committee advances bill to waive county recording fees for removing racial/restrictive covenants
Summary
Senate File 559 would prohibit counties from charging a recording fee for documents that remove racial or other restrictive covenants from property titles. The committee adopted an author's amendment and voted to send the bill to the Judiciary Committee with recommendation for passage.
Senate File 559, a proposal to prohibit county recording fees for documents that remove racially restrictive or other unlawful restrictive covenants from property titles, was advanced by the Senate Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention and recommended for referral to the Judiciary Committee.
Sponsor Senator Lucero said the bill grew from work by groups identifying restrictive covenants recorded on titles decades ago. Although such covenants were declared illegal years ago,…
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