The House of Delegates hasn’t forgotten about the U.S. Supreme Court “Kelo” ruling that expanded the rights of local governments to condemn peoples’ land for economic development purposes. The House passed a bill last year curtailing the application of eminent domain in Virginia but deadlocked with the Senate, so the bill went nowhere.
But according to the Free Lance-Star, House Speaker William J. Howell, has a task force looking at Kelo and expects to submit new legislation in the 2007 session.