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US HB7074
Bill
Status
1/14/2026
Primary Sponsor
Dan Newhouse
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AI Summary
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Adds the Secretary of the Interior as a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) for transactions involving land or resources adjacent to lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, National Park Service, or U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Requires CFIUS to review land or resource acquisitions by foreign persons from China, North Korea, Russia, or Iran when the Secretary of the Interior identifies such transactions as potentially covered transactions.
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Authorizes the Committee to determine whether flagged transactions constitute covered transactions and whether to initiate a formal national security review.
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Includes a sunset provision that terminates the review requirements for a specific country when that country is removed from the official list of foreign adversaries under 15 CFR 791.4.
Legislative Description
Keeping Public Lands Out of Adversarial Hands Act
Last Action
Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Foreign Affairs, 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.
1/14/2026