HOUSE 1234116th CongressReferred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.

Preventing the Taking of Americans’ Land to Build Trump’s Wall Act

Last Action: 3/25/2019

Actions

2019-03-25Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
2019-03-06Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations.
2019-02-14Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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.
2019-02-14Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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.
2019-02-14Introduced in House
2019-02-14Introduced in House

CRS Summary

As of 2019-02-14 (00)

Preventing the Taking of Americans' Land to Build Trump's Wall Act

This bill restricts the government's ability to seize private land rights for physical barriers, or roads between ports of entry, along the U.S.-Mexico border. Before taking possession of or altering such private land, the Department of Homeland Security shall certify to Congress that each property owner has received just compensation as established in a judicial condemnation proceeding.

Cosponsors (7)

BENNIE THOMPSON (D-MS)
Veronica Escobar (D-TX)
Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ)
SHEILA JACKSON LEE (D-TX)
JANICE SCHAKOWSKY (D-IL)
Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX)
ELEANOR NORTON (D-DC)

Subjects

Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional oversight
Judicial procedure and administration
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Latin America
Mexico
Property rights
Roads and highways

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