REAL Protection Act
Latest action · Dec 4, 2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Progress
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- IntroducedNov 13, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Resurveys Entitle Adjacent Landowners to Protection Act or the REAL Protection Act
This bill directs the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, or the Forest Service, as appropriate, to notify all property owners with land abutting or adjacent to federal land being resurveyed of the pending resurvey. A resurvey is an official rerunning and remarking intended to supersede the records of the original survey.
The appropriate agency shall notify affected landowners within 30 days of completion of the resurvey if it extends the boundaries of federal land.
If a resurvey results in private land being reclassified as federal land, the affected landowners shall be given the right of first refusal to purchase the land for fair market value minus the value of any significant improvements made to such lands, or be reimbursed for the fair market value of any such improvements. Affected landowners may not be charged with willful trespass onto the land unless they used such lands with the knowledge that they should be classified as federal land.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 4, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
- Dec 2, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
- Nov 13, 2019Introduced in House
- Nov 13, 2019Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 580 | Protection and Transparency for Adjacent Landowners Act | Related bill | Feb 7, 2019 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 13, 2019Introduced in House
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