HR 1234
116th Congress
House
Immigration
Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional oversight
Judicial procedure and administration
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Latin America
Mexico
Property rights
Roads and highways
Preventing the Taking of Americans’ Land to Build Trump’s Wall Act
Introduced: February 14, 2019
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Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 25, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
Mar 6, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations.
Feb 14, 2019
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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.
Feb 14, 2019
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Preventing the Taking of Americans' Land to Build Trump's Wall Act
This bill restricts the government's ability to seize private land rights for physical barriers, or roads between ports of entry, along the U.S.-Mexico border. Before taking possession of or altering such private land, the Department of Homeland Security shall certify to Congress that each property owner has received just compensation as established in a judicial condemnation proceeding.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.