Rep. Steve Hobbs, R-Mexico, and member of the task force said the state needs to do a better job of protecting property owners and making them aware of their rights. The task force will suggest legislation requiring the condemning authority to give landowners more information about the eminent domain process. The task force would also like a law allowing property owners to recover attorney's fees and expenses when a developer pulls out of a project.
Republican State Representative Steve Hobbs from Mexico says he wants to take the information from the Task Force's meetings to introduce new legislation.
Task force member Rep. Steve Hobbs, R-Mexico, said it was obvious that a lot of people did not read the entire report the task force submitted to the governor on Oct. 1.
"We have heard from folks that feel that their property is being taken essentially to add wealth to private companies and their individuals and they proclaim that this is their property and they bought it and they don't want to sell it," said Steve Hobbs, state Representative, R-Mexico and member of the task force.
"What we are going to look at doing is work on the procedures," said Rep. Steve Hobbs, R-Mexico, member of the task force. "We are going to look at who has that power. There is a wide list of folks who have that power and to me, eminent domain is a power that should be very tightly held.
With the UM system and SMSU making concessions throughout the process, Rep. Steve Hobbs, R-Mexico, said he hoped the General Assembly would remember what the UM system had given up.
Rep. Steve Hobbs, R-Mexico, said he believed insurance premiums would decrease, and the state had put the insurance industry on notice that it would need to explain if insurance rates did not go down.
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