What all was said after the TX Senate Eminent Domain Bill Package?

  • “Many [Senators] still consider the privately financed plan a boondoggle”

Austin Business Journal | Bills targeting Texas high-speed rail spark debate in Senate Transportation Committee

  • The bill prohibiting eminent domain for high speed rail has been sent to Local and Consent. 

Austin American Statesman | Bills stalling or stopping bullet train pass Texas Senate committee

  • Focused on the land owners experience. Including this quote from a member of the Board of Directors  of the  Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, “”Private law abiding citizens should not emerge from the eminent domain process battered, bruised and financially poorer by the deeds of condemnors who are acting as agents of the State of Texas,”

My Highland Plains | Texas Cattle Raisers Testify in Support of SB 740 for Eminent Domain Reform