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Committee backs bill to streamline removal of alleged squatters and protect responding officers
Summary
House Bill 10 would define "squatter," create a sworn petition process for property owners to request prompt removal, and give limited liability protections to law enforcement acting in good faith; committee favorably reported the bill 18-0 after lawmakers debated immunity and wrongful-removal safeguards.
Representatives Mary Anne Proctor and Emily Calloway presented House Bill 10, which they described as creating a statutory process to identify and remove unlawful occupants from real property and to give law enforcement clearer authority when responding to such calls.
"What this bill is doing is defining what a squatter is, and it streamlines what law enforcement is able to do to be able to remove them," Representative Mary Anne Proctor said, describing the measure as applying to all real property and not to current or former tenants.
The bill requires a sworn petition that the responding…
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