Key Votes
Sub SB 167 - Restricting Eminent Domain - Key Vote
Connecticut Key Votes
Stages
- June 25, 2007 Executive Signed
- June 2, 2007 House Concurrence Vote Passed
- May 31, 2007 Senate Bill Passed
- March 16, 2007 Introduced
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Legislation - Signed (Executive) - June 25, 2007
Title: Restricting Eminent Domain
Signed by Governor Jodi Rell
Legislation - Concurrence Vote Passed (House) (132-7) - June 2, 2007 (Key vote)
Title: Restricting Eminent Domain
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that restricts the use of eminent domain to acquire private property.
Highlights:
-Prohibits the use of eminent domain to acquire private property for the primary purpose of increasing local tax revenue (Sec. 1).
-Requires a public hearing on any proposed use of eminent domain, that this hearing be mentioned in a local newspaper of reasonable circulation at least ten days prior, and that notice of the hearing be sent by first class mail to all owners of record of the property to be acquired and all other properties within one hundred feet of the property to be acquired (Sec. 1).
-Requires any use of eminent domain to be approved by a 2/3 majority of the municipalitys legislative body (Sec. 1).
-Requires, should any property acquired through eminent domain be resold, that it be offered first to the original owner for a price not to exceed the fair market value of the property or the amount originally paid to the owner at the time the property was acquired (whichever is less), and that the owner be given a six-month period to repurchase the property before it is offered to any third parties (Sec. 1).
-Requires the agency redeveloping any property acquired through eminent domain to prepare a detailed report describing the redevelopment plan, the community needs that will be addressed by the redevelopment, and possible alternatives to addressing those needs other than the acquisition of private property through eminent domain (Sec. 3).
-Requires that any property to be acquired by eminent domain be subject to two independent appraisals by two different certified real estate appraisals, and that the compensation due the owner of the property be 125% of the average of the two appraised values (Sec. 8).
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (33-3) - May 31, 2007 (Key vote)
Title: Restricting Eminent Domain
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that restricts the use of eminent domain to acquire private property.
Highlights:
-Prohibits the use of eminent domain to acquire private property for the primary purpose of increasing local tax revenue (Sec. 1).
-Requires a public hearing on any proposed use of eminent domain, that this hearing be mentioned in a local newspaper of reasonable circulation at least ten days prior, and that notice of the hearing be sent by first class mail to all owners of record of the property to be acquired and all other properties within one hundred feet of the property to be acquired (Sec. 1).
-Requires any use of eminent domain to be approved by a 2/3 majority of the municipalitys legislative body (Sec. 1).
-Requires, should any property acquired through eminent domain be resold, that it be offered first to the original owner for a price not to exceed the fair market value of the property or the amount originally paid to the owner at the time the property was acquired (whichever is less), and that the owner be given a six-month period to repurchase the property before it is offered to any third parties (Sec. 1).
-Requires the agency redeveloping any property acquired through eminent domain to prepare a detailed report describing the redevelopment plan, the community needs that will be addressed by the redevelopment, and possible alternatives to addressing those needs other than the acquisition of private property through eminent domain (Sec. 3).
-Requires that any property to be acquired by eminent domain be subject to two independent appraisals by two different certified real estate appraisals, and that the compensation due the owner of the property be 125% of the average of the two appraised values (Sec. 8).
Legislation - Introduced (Senate) - March 16, 2007
Title: Restricting Eminent Domain
Co-sponsors
- Richard O. 'Dick' Belden (CT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Jeffrey J. Berger (CT - D)
- Antonietta 'Toni' Boucher (CT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Elizabeth A. 'Betty' Boukus (CT - D)
- Tom F. Christiano (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Thomas A. 'Tom' Colapietro Jr. (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Eric D. Coleman (CT - D)
- Joseph J. 'Joe' Crisco Jr. (CT - D)
- Stephen D. Dargan (CT - D)
- Thomas J. Drew (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Leonard A. 'Len' Fasano (CT - R)
- William A. 'Bill' Finch (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Livvy R. Floren (CT - R)
- Judith G. Freedman (CT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Mary G. Fritz (CT - D)
- Linda Menna Gentile (CT - D)
- John C. Geragosian (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Lile R. Gibbons (CT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Edwin A. Gomes (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mary Ann Handley (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Toni N. Harp (CT - D)
- Jonathan A. Harris (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Michael P. 'Mike' Lawlor (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Carlo Leone (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Joan A. Lewis (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Andrew M. Maynard (CT - D)
- Andrew J. McDonald (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Lawrence G. Miller (CT - R)
- Bruce V. Morris (CT - D)
- Linda A. Orange (CT - D)
- Walter M. Pawelkiewicz (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Edith G. Prague (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Gayle Slossburg (CT - D)
- Andrea L. Stillman (CT - D)
- Christopher R. Stone (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Kathleen M. 'Kathy' Tallarita (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Julia B. Wasserman (CT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Elissa T. Wright (CT - D)
- Bruce P. 'Zeke' Zalaski (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
