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House passes eminent-domain clarification after floor fight over emergency-access language
Summary
First-substitute House Bill 323, clarifying that parks are not trails and tightening eminent-domain use, passed the House 55–17 after members removed a proposed emergency-access expansion from the substitute language.
The House on Feb. 13 passed first-substitute House Bill 323, an eminent-domain amendment intended to clarify that narrow linear features used primarily for transportation (trails) are not equivalent to parks and to limit certain uses of eminent domain. The vote followed an extended and sometimes heated floor debate over language addressing emergency access.
Representative Tilton, sponsor of…
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