California Eminent Domain Update
Timothy Sandefur on Aug 30th 2005
The California State Senate Judiciary Committee has given a negative report to SCA 15, the proposed amendment to the State Constitution to forbid the abuse of eminent domain. It held onto SCA 12, a meaningless measure designed to fool people into thinking eminent domain abuse is being fought, for further consideration. It approved SB 1162/AB 1026, a bill which would impose a two-year moratorium only on condemnations of “owner-occupied residential property,” and require bureaucrats to write a report about eminent domain, and then let them go right back to doing the same thing, hoping people forget about the issue.
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