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No American Land for Communist China Act

To prohibit certain businesses and persons from purchasing real estate adjacent to covered Federal lands in the United States, and for other purposes.

Introduced Feb 25, 2025

Latest action (Feb 25, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Referred to
Foreign Affairs Committee
Policy area
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Issues
Defense

Summary

The bill prohibits the Government of the People's Republic of China and Chinese government-controlled businesses (defined as those in which the Chinese government owns 25% or more equity) from purchasing real estate located adjacent to U.S. federal lands. Covered federal lands include those managed by the Interior Department, Defense Department, Agriculture Department (Forest Service), Energy Department, and Indian country territories. The President is directed to take necessary actions to enforce this prohibition across all U.S. states, territories, and possessions. The bill is aimed at preventing acquisition of land near federally managed lands that may be strategically sensitive or located near military installations.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
60 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Feb 25, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. · house
  2. Feb 25, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 715 — No American Land for Communist China Act · Introduced Feb 25, 2025 · Cong. 119 82%
  • HR 809 — Securing America’s Land from Foreign Interference Act · Introduced Jan 28, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 3618 — American Land and Property Protection Act · Introduced May 29, 2025 · Cong. 119 63%
  • HR 2124 — LAND Act · Introduced Apr 4, 2025 · Cong. 119 62%
  • HR 4706 — Protecting Our Farms and Homes from China Act · Introduced Jul 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 61%
  • S 176 — Not One More Inch or Acre Act · Introduced Jan 22, 2025 · Cong. 119 61%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Feb 25, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 25, 2025

Mr. Newhouse (for himself, Mr. Meuser, Mr. Guest, Mr. Bentz, Mr. Latta, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Moolenaar, Mr. Hamadeh of Arizona, Mr. Scott Franklin of Florida, Mr. Webster of Florida, Ms. Hageman, Mr. Zinke, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Fleischmann, Mr. Bean of Florida, Mr. Ellzey, Mrs. Hinson, Mr. Onder, Mr. Gooden, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Bost, Mr. Haridopolos, Mr. Evans of Colorado, Mrs. Luna, Mr. Flood, Mr. Collins, Ms. De La Cruz, Mr. Smith of Nebraska, Mr. Van Orden, Mr. Valadao, Mrs. Miller- Meeks, Mr. Rose, Mr. Moore of West Virginia, Mr. Hurd of Colorado, Mr. Joyce of Pennsylvania, Mr. Pfluger, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. Alford, Ms. Boebert, and Mr. Nunn of Iowa) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

A BILL

To prohibit certain businesses and persons from purchasing real estate adjacent to covered Federal lands in the United States, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “No American Land for Communist China Act”.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON THE PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE LOCATED ADJACENT TO COVERED FEDERAL LANDS IN THE UNITED STATES BY NATIONALS OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

(a) In General.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the President shall take such actions as may be necessary to prohibit the purchase of real estate located adjacent to covered Federal land in the United States by—

(1) any agent of the Government of the People’s Republic of China; or

(2) any business with respect to which the Government of the People’s Republic of China, directly or indirectly through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship, or otherwise, owns 25 percent or more of the equity interests of the business.

(b) Definitions.—In this section—

(1) the term “United States” means the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, and any other territory or possession of the United States; and

(2) the term “covered Federal lands” means—

(A) land owned by the United States and under the jurisdiction of—

(i) the Secretary of the Interior;

(ii) the Secretary of Defense;

(iii) the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to land managed by the Forest Service; and

(iv) the Secretary of Energy; or

(B) land that is Indian country under section 1151 of title 18, United States Code. <all>

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