Substitute for Raised H.B. No. 6892
Session Year 2023
 


AN ACT CONCERNING MUNICIPAL BLIGHT ORDINANCES AND THE FINE FOR LITTERING.

To (1) remove the municipal population threshold for certain parties to petition the Superior Court for the appointment of a receiver for a blighted and abandoned property, (2) allow municipalities to enact blight ordinances concerning both residential and commercial real property, (3) increase the permissible fines for blight ordinance violations, (4) increase the fine for littering to five hundred dollars, (5) reduce notice requirements to lienors when a municipality remediates certain code violations, and (6) remove certain blight violations from the infractions list.

Introduced by:
Planning and Development Committee

 New today  2-4 days old  5 days & older

Co-sponsors for Amendment LCO:

Bill History

 Date Action Taken
 6/7/2023Signed by the Governor
 6/6/2023Transmitted by Secretary of the State to Governor
 6/6/2023Transmitted to the Secretary of State
 6/5/2023(LCO)Public Act 23-33
 6/1/2023In Concurrence
 6/1/2023Senate Passed as Amended by House Amendment Schedule A
 6/1/2023Senate Rejected Senate Amendment Schedule A 9473
 6/1/2023Senate Adopted House Amendment Schedule A
 5/18/2023(LCO)File Number 789
 5/18/2023Senate Calendar Number 514
 5/18/2023Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
 5/16/2023House Passed as Amended by House Amendment Schedule A
 5/16/2023House Rejected House Amendment Schedule B 8025
 5/16/2023House Adopted House Amendment Schedule A 7463
 5/9/2023Tabled for the Calendar, House
 5/9/2023No New File by Committee on Judiciary
 5/9/2023(LCO)Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
 5/9/2023(LCO)Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
 5/9/2023(JUD)Joint Favorable
 5/3/2023Referred by House to Committee on Judiciary
 4/4/2023(LCO)File Number 419
 4/4/2023House Calendar Number 282
 4/4/2023Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, House
 4/4/2023(LCO)Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
 3/29/2023(LCO)Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/03/23 5:00 PM
 3/20/2023(LCO)Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
 3/20/2023(PD)Joint Favorable Substitute
 3/10/2023Public Hearing 03/15
 3/9/2023Referred to Joint Committee on Planning and Development

Co-sponsors of HB-6892

Rep. Christopher Rosario, 128th Dist.
Rep. Jennifer Leeper, 132nd Dist.
Sen. Martha Marx, 20th Dist.
Rep. Anthony L. Nolan, 39th Dist.
Rep. Christine Conley, 40th Dist.
Sen. Ceci Maher, 26th Dist.
Rep. Michelle L. Cook, 65th Dist.
Rep. Andre F. Baker, 124th Dist.
Sen. Bob Duff, 25th Dist.

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