FLOODING/CONTROL: Prohibits expropriation by the board of commissioners of the Amite River Basin Drainage and Water Conservation District in East Feliciana and St. Helena Parishes

HB 493 prohibits the Amite River Basin Drainage and Water Conservation District's board of commissioners from taking private land through expropriation (legal seizure) within East Feliciana and St. Helena parishes in Louisiana. This directly affects property owners, including homeowners, businesses, barns, outbuildings, and churches in those specific parishes. The bill amends existing law to remove the district's authority to expropriate property in these areas while maintaining the requirement that owners would be paid the full replacement cost of any property taken elsewhere in the district. The change specifically targets the district's expropriation power in two parishes, leaving other provisions of the law intact.