S 2537 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Red River Private Property Protection Act

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jun 26, 2014 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4156)

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 SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Red River Private Property Protection Act - Directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to relinquish and transfer, by quitclaim deed, all interest of the United States in and to the lands along the approximately 539-mile stretch of the Red River between Texas and Oklahoma to any claimant who demonstrates that official county or state records indicate that such claimant holds all interest to those lands.

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

Instructs 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 Secretary of the Interior has ensured that such parcels are not subject to transfer by this Act.

Cosponsors 1

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jun 26, 2014.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-TXTed CruzOriginalJun 26, 2014

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jun 26, 2014Introduced in Senate
  2. Jun 26, 2014Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4156)

Related bills 1

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

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
HR 4979Red River Private Property Protection ActIdentical billDec 22, 2014

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Jun 26, 2014Introduced in Senate

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