Eminent domain, oil pipeline bill dies in Texas House
“A bill that would reform the process of putting private oil pipelines across the state and take private land under eminent domain provisions died in the House on a technicality Friday.
The bill, HB 2748 from Rep. Tryon Lewis, R-Odessa, would develop regulations enabling pipeline companies to get “common carrier status,” which automatically grants the company the ability to use eminent domain to take land.
With the bill sent back to the committee on a “point of order” — a procedural technicality — from Rep. Yvonne Davis, D-Dallas, the bill may not make it back to the House floor before the end of the session at the end of May.”
Waller, Mathew. Scripps Texas Newspapers 3 May 2013.