Action Alert: HJ693 - Protecting Your Property Rights

Feb 16, 2011

3 min read

Calls needed ASAP to assure passage ..... 1st floor vote today

About The Bill HJ693 is a constitutional amendment that will safeguard your property rights from state and local government and corporations, as well as ensure just compensation in circumstances when land must be taken for legitimate public uses. Please contact the Committee members below to offer your SUPPORT for HJ693. For more information see the General Assembly's LIS system: http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+vot+S08V0086+HJ0693.

Latest News

HJ693 was voted on today by the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee. It was reported from the Privileges and Elections with substitute by 1 vote (8-Y 7-N). The vote was mostly along party lines with Creigh Deeds

and Phil Pucket

braking from their party.

Next Steps

There will be a Full Senate Vote tomorrow, Wednesday, February 16th.

Action Items

Contact your Senator and ask him to SUPPORT this bill. Use the "Who's My Legislator" tool to find contact information.(below)

Suggested Talking Points:

- Private property rights are fundamental to individual liberty

- Private property rights guarantee the free exercise of our other civil liberties - We need to make sure that Kelo-type takings can never happen in Virginia because it’s wrong for the government to take property

from one person and give it to someone the government prefers

- Owners should be compensated for the full impact of a taking

- We need an amendment to make sure the protection of private property is permanent

- Passage of this amendment is necessary to bring stability and predictability to the right of Virginians to own private property free of

overreaching uses of the power of eminent domain.

Please call S

enators

and ask them to vote NO on any amendments and to vote

YES on the bill without amendments.