HR 3943
115th Congress
House
Immigration
Border security and unlawful immigration
Land transfers
Latin America
Mexico
Property rights
Protecting the Property Rights of Border Landowners Act
Introduced: October 4, 2017
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Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 20, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
Oct 16, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
Oct 4, 2017
Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Oct 4, 2017
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Protecting the Property Rights of Border Landowners Act
This bill amends the the Immigration and Nationality Act to: (1) authorize the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as well as the Department of Justice (DOJ), to acquire by purchase or gift any interest in land near an international border deemed essential to guard U.S. boundaries or borders, and (2) prohibit DHS or DOJ from using condemnation authority to acquire land to construct a wall or other physical barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.