ESSB 5142: Providing owners of real estate taken through eminent domain by school districts, or sold under threat of eminent domain, the opportunity to purchase the real estate back when it is not put to intended public use.

What this bill does

Requires school districts that acquire real estate through a condemnation action or threat of a condemnation action to offer the previous owner an opportunity to purchase the property back before selling, transferring, or putting the property to another use when certain conditions are met.

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Floor votes

• House: Final Passage as Amended by the House · April 9, 2025
  97 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting
• Senate: Final Passage as Amended by the House · April 17, 2025
  49 yea · 0 nay
• Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 25, 2025
  49 yea · 0 nay

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