Preemption of Real Property Citizenship Discrimination (HR7053)
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-03-12 — SOIL Act of 2025: cross-connection with foreign-agricultural-land-investment-disclosure: Both address restrictions on foreign-national real property interests — SOIL Act targets agricultural land via CFIUS/AFIDA at the federal level, while HR7053 addresses preemption of citizenship-based real property discrimination, framing a tension between federal foreign-land restrictions and anti-discrimination preemption. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-01-14 — Preemption of Real Property Discrimination Act: HR7053 (119th Congress) introduced and referred to House Judiciary Committee on 2026-01-14; would preempt any state law prohibiting or restricting an individual from purchasing real property based on citizenship status, directly overriding the recent wave of state statutes restricting foreign national land purchases. (novelty: 3)