Real Estate & Property Law

Texas Saga

By Alan Ackerman

KFDA

Amarillo, Texas- As expected, Texas Governor Rick Perry has called for a special legislative session.  He announced Thursday that lawmakers will be called to Austin July 1st.

The filibuster at the end of the last session to prevent a voter ID vote prevented two essential bills from getting passed.  A safety net measure would allow the transportation and insurance departments and others to keep operating.  Also, the Texas Department of Transportation depended on $2-billion of road building bonds that weren't passed.

So the primary goal of lawmakers is to get those two bills passed this session.

This synopsis by KFDA in Amarillo explains only the most recent part of the Texas saga, in which the Governor is required to deal with the municipal\ public body\ bureaucracy against the libertarian\property owner and farmer lobbyists.

Full post as published by National Eminent Domain Blog on July 02, 2009 (boomark / email).