Amendment H-1124 to HF 886
Relating to the improvement of United States highway 30, including prioritization by the state transportation commission and restrictions on associated use of eminent domain
Adopted · March 19, 2025
Filed March 18, 2025 in the House by
What it changes
AI summary This amendment adds a rule that the state cannot use eminent domain to take land for expanding U.S. Highway 30 if that land is a century farm or residential property, unless all other reasonable alternatives have been used first.1
Read the amendment’s wording
- Page 1, before line 1 by inserting: “Section
- NEW SECTION . 306.48 Eminent domain power restricted. The department shall not exercise the power of eminent domain, including as provided in chapters 6A and 6B, to acquire land necessary to expand the two-lane portions of United States highway 30 in accordance with a plan adopted under section 307A.2, subsections 3 and 5, until the department expends all reasonable alternatives, if the land is part of a century farm, as defined in section 403.17, subsection 10, or is residential real property, as defined in section 535B.1.”
- Title page, by striking lines 1 and 2 and inserting “An Act relating to the improvement of United States highway 30, including prioritization by the state transportation commission and restrictions on associated use of eminent domain.”
- By renumbering as necessary.