2025 bills / S.B. 55
S.B. 55 Unauthorized Use of Real Property Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill lets property owners or their agents ask police to quickly remove trespassers under certain conditions, after filing a complaint that meets set requirements. It also makes it a crime to intentionally trespass or occupy property and cause a set amount of damage, to knowingly present a false lease or deed, or to fraudulently list or rent residential property.
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Official description
- authorizes property owners or their agents to request assistance from law enforcement for the immediate removal of a trespasser from real property under certain conditions
- requires an owner seeking removal of a trespasser, or the owner's authorized agent, to submit a complaint
- specifies requirements for the complaint
- provides requirements for law enforcement
- authorizes law enforcement to arrest a trespasser for legal cause
- authorizes the owner or agent to request that law enforcement stand by while the owner or agent takes possession of the property
- provides that law enforcement is not liable to any party for loss, destruction, or damage
- provides that the property owner or agent is not liable to any party for the loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal property unless it was wrongfully removed
- provides civil remedies
- imposes criminal penalties for unlawfully possessing of, occupying on, or trespassing on real property intentionally and causing a specified amount of damage
- imposes criminal penalties for any person who knowingly and willfully presents a false document purporting to be a valid lease agreement, deed, or other instrument conveying real property rights
- imposes criminal penalties for fraudulently listing or advertising for sale, or renting or leasing, residential real property under certain circumstances
- provides criminal penalties for committing perjury
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 55 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 55 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 6 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: vote to change the bill · Jan 22, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 22, 2025Who voted how
- 26 yes, 0 no, 3 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Jan 23, 2025Who voted how
- 27 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 3, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 1 noHouse Judiciary Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 12, 2025Who voted how
- yes, undefined nouncircled · Feb 19, 2025
- 63 yes, 2 no, 10 absentFinal House vote · Feb 19, 2025Who voted how
Hearings and debates
- Jan 22, 2025 Senate Business and Labor Committee▶ Watch
- Feb 12, 2025 House Judiciary Committee▶ Watch
- 23/1/2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- 24/1/2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- Mar 2, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- Mar 2, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- 19/2/2025 House floor debate▶ Watch
- 19/2/2025 House floor debate▶ Watch