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