US HB440 | 2019-2020 | 116th Congress

US Congress House Bill 440 (Prior Session Legislation)

Status

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-03-04 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

States that when the government seeks to obtain land or land rights essential to control or guard a U.S. land border, it may not take such land or land rights until a final judgment has been issued in a condemnation proceeding initiated under judicial process. The bill also transfers the authority to obtain such land rights from the Department of Justice to the Department of Homeland Security.

Title

Eminent Domain Just Compensation Act

History

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-04	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
2019-02-04	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations.
2019-01-10	House	Referred 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.
2019-01-10	House	Referred 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.
2019-01-10	House	Introduced in House