Land and Liberty Protection Act of 2008
Latest action · Apr 3, 2008 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 623.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedApr 2, 2008
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Land and Liberty Protection Act of 2008 - Protecting Americans from Violent Crime Act of 2008 - Bars the promulgation and enforcement of regulations that prohibit individuals from possessing firearms in units of the National Park System and the National Wildlife Refuge System.
Government Real Estate Accountability and Transparency Act of 2008 - Requires the submission of annual reports detailing the amount of land that is owned by the federal government and the costs of maintaining that land.
No Trespassing Act of 2008 - Bars the Secretary of the Interior from approving a management plan for a National Heritage Area unless the local coordinating entity of the proposed Area notifies the individuals who reside or own property in that Area. Prohibits any National Park Service (NPS) employee or member of the local coordinating entity of a National Heritage Area from entering private property without the owner's consent.
Taxpayer Property Protection Act of 2008 - Bars the Department of the Interior, the Department of Energy, and the Forest Service from assuming control of any land in a state unless the citizens of the political subdivisions in which the land is located approve the assumption of control by a referendum.
Do No Harm Act of 2008 - Prohibits a National Heritage Area designation from taking effect until the President certifies that it will not cause an adverse impact on specified agriculture, livestock, energy, critical infrastructure, and housing concerns.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 3, 2008Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 623.
- Apr 2, 2008Introduced in Senate
- Apr 2, 2008Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S2367 | Harry Reid D-NV | Apr 3, 2008 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S2365 | Harry Reid D-NV | Apr 2, 2008 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| RL33484 | National Park Management Archived | Report | Aug 15, 2008 |
Related bills 5
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2619 | Protecting Americans from Violent Crime Act of 2008 | Related bill | Feb 11, 2008 |
| S 2808 | No Trespassing Act of 2008 | Related bill | Apr 3, 2008 |
| S 2809 | Do No Harm Act of 2008 | Related bill | Apr 3, 2008 |
| S 2810 | Government Real Estate Accountability and Transparency Act of 2008 | Related bill | Apr 3, 2008 |
| S 2811 | Taxpayer Property Protection Act of 2008 | Related bill | Apr 3, 2008 |
Titles 7
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to protect the liberty and property of all Americans.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Land and Liberty Protection Act of 2008
- Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill
- Do No Harm Act of 2008
- Taxpayer Property Protection Act of 2008
- No Trespassing Act of 2008
- Government Real Estate Accountability and Transparency Act of 2008
- Protecting Americans From Violent Crime Act of 2008
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
- Administrative procedure
- Affordable housing
- Agriculture and Food
- Animals
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Commemorations
- Commerce
- Cost accounting
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Department of the Interior
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electric power distribution
- Electric power transmission
- Energy
- Energy industries
- Federal employees
- Federal-local relations
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Firearms control
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Historic sites
- History
- Housing and Community Development
- Infrastructure
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- Internet
- Land transfers
- Law
- Livestock
- Maintenance and repair
- National parks
- Natural gas
- Pipelines
- Prospecting
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Referendum
- Right of property
- Science, Technology, Communications
- State laws
- Web sites
- Wildlife refuges
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 3, 2008Placed on Calendar Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
