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House committee backs bill limiting eminent domain for private energy collector systems
Summary
House Bill 91 would restrict the use of eminent domain for energy collector systems across multiple private landowners, prompting debate about private property rights, constitutional challenges and unintended breadth of the bill's language.
Representative Winter moved that when the Committee of the Whole rises to report, it do so with the recommendation that House Bill 91 do pass; the motion carried and the committee recommended the bill for passage.
Representative Schmidt explained that House Bill 91 is aimed at protecting private property rights by limiting the use of eminent domain for private companies seeking easements or rights-of-way across multiple landowners. "If imminent domain takes place, that…
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