Bill > HB304

This bill amends Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:1108(C) to specifically clarify the venue (location) for legal proceedings related to expropriations under the Louisiana Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act. The bill adds language requiring that any expropriation hearings must be heard in the parish (county) where the property subject to expropriation is physically located, regardless of any other existing laws that might suggest otherwise. Carbon capture is a process of capturing carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources or the atmosphere to prevent them from entering the environment, and expropriation is a legal process where the government can take private property for public use with compensation. The new provision ensures that property owners would have their expropriation hearings conducted in their local parish, which could provide more convenient and potentially more sympathetic legal proceedings for landowners whose property might be needed for carbon capture infrastructure or related geological sequestration projects.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

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