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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 715 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To prohibit certain businesses and persons from purchasing real estate |
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| 6 | 6 | | adjacent to covered Federal land in the United States, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY25, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. L |
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| 10 | 10 | | UMMIS(for herself, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. CRAPO, Mrs. BLACKBURN, and |
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| 11 | 11 | | Mr. S |
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| 12 | 12 | | HEEHY) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and re- |
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| 13 | 13 | | ferred to the Committee on Foreign Relations |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To prohibit certain businesses and persons from purchasing |
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| 16 | 16 | | real estate adjacent to covered Federal land in the |
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| 17 | 17 | | United States, and for other purposes. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No American Land 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | for Communist China Act’’. 5 |
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| 25 | 25 | | •S 715 IS |
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| 26 | 26 | | SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF THE PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE 1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | LOCATED ADJACENT TO COVERED FEDERAL 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | LAND IN THE UNITED STATES BY NATIONALS 3 |
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| 29 | 29 | | OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. 4 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (a) D |
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| 31 | 31 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (1) C |
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| 33 | 33 | | OVERED FEDERAL LAND .—The term ‘‘cov-6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | ered Federal land’’ means— 7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (A) land owned by the United States that 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | is under the jurisdiction of— 9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (i) the Secretary of the Interior; 10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (ii) the Secretary of Defense; 11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (iii) the Secretary of Agriculture, with 12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | respect to land managed by the Forest 13 |
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| 41 | 41 | | Service; or 14 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (iv) the Secretary of Energy; or 15 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (B) land that is Indian country (as defined 16 |
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| 44 | 44 | | in section 1151 of title 18, United States 17 |
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| 45 | 45 | | Code). 18 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (2) U |
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| 47 | 47 | | NITED STATES.—The term ‘‘United 19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | States’’ means the several States, the District of Co-20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | lumbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Com-21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Amer-22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | ican Samoa, Guam, the United States Virgin Is-23 |
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| 52 | 52 | | lands, and any other territory or possession of the 24 |
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| 53 | 53 | | United States. 25 |
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| 56 | 56 | | •S 715 IS |
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| 57 | 57 | | (b) PROHIBITION.—Notwithstanding any other provi-1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | sion of law, the President shall take such actions as may 2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | be necessary to prohibit the purchase of real estate located 3 |
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| 60 | 60 | | adjacent to covered Federal land in the United States 4 |
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| 61 | 61 | | by— 5 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (1) any agent of the Government of the Peo-6 |
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| 63 | 63 | | ple’s Republic of China; or 7 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (2) any business with respect to which the Gov-8 |
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| 65 | 65 | | ernment of the People’s Republic of China, directly 9 |
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| 66 | 66 | | or indirectly through any contract, arrangement, un-10 |
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| 67 | 67 | | derstanding, relationship, or otherwise, owns 25 per-11 |
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| 68 | 68 | | cent or more of the equity interests of the business. 12 |
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| 69 | 69 | | Æ |
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