HR 4979 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Red River Private Property Protection Act

Latest action · Dec 22, 2014 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 531.

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.

  1. IntroducedJun 26, 2014
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Red River Private Property Protection Act - (Sec. 2) States that the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), disclaims interest to certain lands along a stretch of the Red River between Texas and Oklahoma located south of the South Bank as specified in the Supreme Court decree rendered March 12, 1923, in Oklahoma v. Texas.

(Sec. 3) Directs the BLM to relinquish, disclaim, and transfer, by special warranty deed, all interest of the United States in and to a specified stretch of Red River lands to any claimant who demonstrates: (1) an interest under a chain of title for at least 30 years from the time of submission, (2) a deed recorded in the appropriate county, and (3) payment of all taxes assessed on the land and any interest and penalties associated with any period of tax delinquency.

Requires publication in the Federal Register and on official and appropriate websites of a process for receiving submissions of such documents.

Sets forth standards for the BLM to approve or disapprove special warranty deed requests.

(Sec. 4) Requires administrative hearing procedures to be established for appeals of BLM decisions or adjudications of disputes between property owners with overlapping claims. Allows property owners who dispute final administrative decisions to pursue claims in a Texas federal court.

(Sec. 5) Instructs the BLM to ensure that no parcels of Red River lands are treated as federal land for the purpose of any resource management plan until the BLM has ensured that such parcels are not subject to transfer by this Act.

(Sec. 6) Prohibits this Act from altering: (1) interests of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes; (2) tribal trust lands; (3) allotted lands that may be held in trust or lands subject to a federal restriction against alienation; (4) boundaries of certain tribe-owned lands pursuant to the gradient boundary survey method established in the Supreme Court decree; and (5) the sovereign rights, jurisdiction, or governmental interests of those tribes.

(Sec. 7) Directs the BLM, after ensuring that Red River lands parcels are not subject to transfer to a claimant, to offer remaining identified federal lands for disposal by competitive sale for at least fair market value. Requires sales to be subject to existing tribal, state, and local rights.

Requires the BLM, within five years after enactment of this Act, to submit to Congress a list of identified federal lands that have not been sold and the reasons those lands were not sold.

Cosponsors 13

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 26, 2014 to Jul 25, 2014; 4 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-TXBill FloresOriginalJun 26, 2014
R-TXKenny MarchantOriginalJun 26, 2014
R-TXMichael C. BurgessOriginalJun 26, 2014
R-TXRandy NeugebauerOriginalJun 26, 2014
R-TXSteve StockmanJun 30, 2014
R-TXMichael T. McCaulJul 8, 2014
R-TXBlake FarentholdJul 9, 2014
R-TXRandy K. Weber, Sr.Jul 9, 2014
R-TXLouie GohmertJul 14, 2014
R-TXPete OlsonJul 15, 2014
R-OKJames LankfordJul 23, 2014
R-TXJohn R. CarterJul 23, 2014
R-TXSam JohnsonJul 25, 2014

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

ChamberCommitteeWhat it did
HouseNatural Resources Committee
Referred Jun 26, 2014Markup Nov 19, 2014Reported Dec 22, 2014
Federal Lands Subcommittee
Referred Jul 2, 2014Hearings Jul 29, 2014Discharged Nov 19, 2014

Actions 9

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Dec 22, 2014Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-700.
  2. Dec 22, 2014Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 531.
  3. Nov 19, 2014Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Discharged.
  4. Nov 19, 2014Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
  5. Nov 19, 2014Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
  6. Jul 29, 2014Subcommittee Hearings Held.
  7. Jul 2, 2014Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
  8. Jun 26, 2014Introduced in House
  9. Jun 26, 2014Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

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.

Committee report

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8 and Article IV, Section 3 of the United States Constitution.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H5818.

Printed hearings 1

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

NumberHearingCommitteeHeld
Serial No. 113-84H.R. 445, H.R. 1785, H.R. 4119, H.R. 4901, H.R. 4979, H.R. 5086, S.311, S. 476, AND S. 609101 pagesNatural Resources CommitteeJul 29, 2014

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
S 2537Red River Private Property Protection ActIdentical billJun 26, 2014

Titles 3

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced
To provide legal certainty to property owners along the Red River in Texas, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced
Red River Private Property Protection Act
Short Titles as Reported to House
Red River Private Property Protection Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.

Text 2

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Dec 22, 2014Reported in House
  2. Jun 26, 2014Introduced in House

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