HB 1504 - This act modifies the method property values are determined in cases where the Highways and Transportation Commission takes property through the power of eminent domain. The court, commissioners, and jury hearing a condemnation proceeding must consider any loss of highway access suffered by the landowner when determining damages. Restriction or loss of access includes the prohibition of making right or left turns into or out of the real estate involved, if access was present before the proposed improvement was built.

The act contains an emergency clause.

This provision is also contained in HCS/HB 946 et al (2004).
STEPHEN WITTE