Residential Property Riparian Rights
Summary
Residential Property Riparian Rights; Requiring land surveyors to give preference to using the prolongation-of-property-line method to establish a property owner’s riparian rights along a channel under certain circumstances; requiring courts to award reasonable attorney fees and costs to a prevailing party in a civil action under certain circumstances, etc.
Bill status
died
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Feb 2022
Senate Passage
Feb 2022
House Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 11, 2022
Last action Mar 14, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Feb 10, 2022
How they voted
37–0
Passed
Total votes 37
Feb 10, 2022
D
Democratic14
100% Yea
R
Republican23
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
7
Committee
7
Feb 10, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0
upper
Feb 3, 2022
Upper · Passed
Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 15 NAYS 0
upper
Jan 31, 2022
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/03/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
upper
Jan 24, 2022
Upper · Passed
Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
upper
Jan 19, 2022
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/24/22, 3:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
upper
Jan 11, 2022
Introduced
Introduced
upper
Jan 10, 2022
Upper · Passed
Favorable by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 4 NAYS 0
upper
Jan 3, 2022
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 01/10/22, 4:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
upper
Nov 16, 2021
Committee
Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Judiciary; Rules
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Ben Albritton
RRepublican
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