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HB 1150 Reengrossed 2016 Regular Session Lance Harris
Abstract: Provides relative to the sale of certain properties by the Department of Transportation
and Development.
Present law provides that when the Dept. of Transportation and Development (DOTD) determines
it has acquired excess property or has property that it no longer needs, the property may be sold to
the highest bidder under a specified process. Provides that the secretary of DOTD may offer to sell
the property at the appraised market value to the vendor who sold the property to the department or
to the landowner whose property is separated from a highway by the excess property.
Proposed law specifies that when the department amicably acquired property that was identified as
an uneconomic remainder at the time of acquisition, there is no obligation to offer such property at
private sale to the vendor or the vendor's successors in title. Specifies that proposed law only applies
to property acquired subsequent to July 1, 2016.
Effective July 1, 2016.
(Amends R.S. 48:221(A)(2))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by House
The House Floor Amendments to the engrossed bill:
1. Make technical changes.
2. Clarify that proposed law specifying that the department is not obligated to offer
amicably acquired property, that was identified as an uneconomic remainder at the time
of acquisition, at private sale to the vendor or the vendor's successors in title is only
applicable to property acquired subsequent to July 1, 2016.
3. Remove the provision that specified that all sales and conveyances completed by the
department between Aug. 15, 2008 and the effective date of Act No. 298 of the 2008
Regular Session are approved.
4. Remove a provision that clarified that proposed law does not apply to any properties the
department expropriated. 5. Remove an effective date provision that would have made proposed law effective upon
signature of the governor.
6. Add an effective date of July 1, 2016.