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Securing America’s Land from Foreign Interference Act

To direct the President to take such actions as may be necessary to prohibit the purchase of public or private real estate located in the United States by members of the Chinese Communist Party and entities that are under the ownership, control, or influence of the Chinese Communist Party.

Introduced Jan 28, 2025

Latest action (Jan 28, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Referred to
Foreign Affairs Committee
Policy area
International Affairs
Issues
Foreign Policy

Summary
  • Directs the President to take necessary actions to prohibit members of the Chinese Communist Party from purchasing public or private real estate in the United States
  • Directs the President to prohibit entities that are under the ownership, control, or influence of the Chinese Communist Party from purchasing public or private real estate in the United States
  • Applies the prohibition to all U.S. states, territories, and possessions, including Puerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, and other territories or possessions

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)
13 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Chip Roy’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • Employer not reported $112,464
  • SBG $13,200
  • HUFFINES COMMUNITIES $10,250
  • Q2 BANKING $9,900
  • WOODFOREST FINANCIAL GROUP $8,700

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Chip Roy → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Jan 28, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. · house
  2. Jan 28, 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.

  • HR 458 — Protecting our Land Act · Introduced Jan 15, 2025 · Cong. 119 77%
  • HR 3618 — American Land and Property Protection Act · Introduced May 29, 2025 · Cong. 119 73%
  • HR 4706 — Protecting Our Farms and Homes from China Act · Introduced Jul 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 71%
  • S 715 — No American Land for Communist China Act · Introduced Feb 25, 2025 · Cong. 119 71%
  • HR 4278 — Protect U.S. Companies from Foreign Regulatory Taxation Act · Introduced Jul 2, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 1575 — No American Land for Communist China Act · Introduced Feb 25, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jan 28, 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

January 28, 2025

Mr. Roy (for himself, Mr. Burlison, Mr. Ogles, Mr. Fallon, Mr. Nehls, Mr. Ellzey, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mrs. Luna, Mr. Gill of Texas, Mr. Burchett, Mr. Moran, Mr. Guest, Mr. Stauber, and Mr. Green of Tennessee) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

A BILL

To direct the President to take such actions as may be necessary to prohibit the purchase of public or private real estate located in the United States by members of the Chinese Communist Party and entities that are under the ownership, control, or influence of the Chinese Communist Party.

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 “Securing America’s Land from Foreign Interference Act”.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON PURCHASE OF PUBLIC OR PRIVATE REAL ESTATE LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES BY MEMBERS OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY AND ENTITIES THAT ARE UNDER THE OWNERSHIP, CONTROL, OR INFLUENCE OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY.

(a) In General.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the President shall take such actions as may be necessary to prohibit the purchase of public or private real estate located in the United States by members of the Chinese Communist Party and entities that are under the ownership, control, or influence of the Chinese Communist Party.

(b) United States Defined.—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. <all>

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