HR 756 · 116th Congress 2019–2021, ended

Embry-Riddle Tri-City Land Exchange Completion Act of 2019

Introduced Jan 24, 2019 Originated House Sponsor Paul A. Gosar R-AZ

Latest action · Feb 11, 2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.

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.

IntroducedJan 24, 2019
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Embry-Riddle Tri-City Land Exchange Completion Act of 2019

This bill requires the Department of Interior to relinquish its reversionary interest in a 16-acre parcel of land that is located in Yavapai County, Arizona, and owned by the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Cosponsors 10

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 24, 2019 to Feb 13, 2019; 9 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-AZ	Andy Biggs	Original	Jan 24, 2019
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick	Original	Jan 24, 2019
R-FL	Daniel Webster	Original	Jan 24, 2019
R-AZ	David Schweikert	Original	Jan 24, 2019
R-AZ	Debbie Lesko	Original	Jan 24, 2019
R-FL	Michael Waltz	Original	Jan 24, 2019
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego	Original	Jan 24, 2019
R-FL	Ted S. Yoho	Original	Jan 24, 2019
D-AZ	Tom O'Halleran	Original	Jan 24, 2019
D-TX	Vicente Gonzalez		Feb 13, 2019

Committees 1

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

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Natural Resources Committee	Referred Jan 24, 2019
	Federal Lands Subcommittee	Referred Feb 11, 2019

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Feb 11, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
Jan 24, 2019Introduced in House
Jan 24, 2019Referred 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.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 (the Property Clause). Under this clause, Congress has the power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States. By virtue of this enumerated power, Congress has governing authority over the lands, territories, or other property of the United States--and with this authority Congress is vested with the power to all owners in fee, the ability to sell, lease, dispose, exchange, convey, or simply preserve land. The Supreme Court has described this enumerated grant as one ``without limitation'' Kleppe v New Mexico, 426 U.S. 529, 542-543 (1976) (``And while the furthest reaches of the power granted by the Property Clause have not been definitely resolved, we have repeatedly observed that the power over the public land thus entrusted to Congress is without limitation.'') The conveyance codified by this legislation is thus constitutional.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 15, January 24, 2019, page H1212.

Printed hearings 1

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

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
Serial No. 116-118	ADDRESSING THE URGENT NEEDS OF OUR TRIBAL COMMUNITIES208 pages	Energy and Commerce Committee	Jul 8, 2020

Related bills 2

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 47	John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act	Related bill	Mar 12, 2019
S 244	Embry-Riddle Tri-City Land Exchange Completion Act of 2019	Identical bill	Jan 28, 2019

Titles 2

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

Official Title as Introduced: To provide for the unencumbering of title to non-Federal land owned by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Florida, for purposes of economic development by conveyance of the Federal reversionary interest to the University.
Short Title(s) as Introduced: Embry-Riddle Tri-City Land Exchange Completion Act of 2019

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jan 24, 2019Introduced in House

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