CHAPTER NUMBER: 349
File Code: Agriculture
Prior Year Introduction As: SB 393/96 - B&T
- Sponsored By:
-
Senator Middleton (Joint Subcommittee on Program Open Space and
Agricultural Land Preservation) and Senator McCabe
- Entitled:
-
Agricultural Land Preservation - Easements Held by County Agricultural
Land Preservation Programs - Condemnation Payments
Clarifying that the Agricultural Land Preservation law does not
prohibit the condemnation of land under a county agricultural land
preservation program easement for public purposes; requiring the State
or a county condemning lands to pay the owner of the land an amount
equal to what the owner would receive if the land were not under the
easement minus a certain amount and to pay the county program the
amount it paid for the easement; and requiring the condemnation award
to be reduced by a specified amount.
Senate Action
- 1/27
- First Reading Budget and Taxation
- 2/5
- Hearing 2/26 at 1:30 p.m.
- 2/21
- Hearing cancelled
- Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/10
- Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation
- 3/11
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 3/13
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- 4/5
- Returned Passed
- 5/8
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 349
House Action
- 3/14
- First Reading Appropriations
- 3/17
- Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/3
- Favorable Report by Appropriations
- 3/30
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 3/31
- Third Reading Passed (135-1)
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Thomas McLain Middleton, District 28
- Senator Christopher J. McCabe, District 14
- Program Open Space/Ag. Land Preservat ion,
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- AGRICULTURE -see also- FARMLAND
- CONDEMNATION
- COUNTIES -see also- CHARTERED COUNTIES; CODE COUNTIES
- EASEMENTS
- FARMLAND
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Agriculture
- (
2-502 ,
2-515
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)