Preemption of Real Property Discrimination Act (HR7053)
Current understanding
HR7053 would federally preempt any state law that prohibits or restricts an individual from purchasing real property based on citizenship status. The bill directly targets the recent wave of state statutes restricting foreign nationals (often citizens of specified countries) from acquiring land, including agricultural and near-military parcels. Status: introduced.
Evidence log
- 2025-02-18 — Protecting America’s Agricultural Land from Foreign Harm Act of 2025: cross-connection with protecting-americas-agricultural-land-foreign-harm-act: Directly opposing federal approaches: this bill imposes federal covered-country land bans while HR7053 would preempt state-level foreign ownership restrictions. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-02-28 — FARM Act: cross-connection with farm-act-cfius-agriculture: HR7053 would preempt state-level foreign ownership restrictions while the FARM Act would create a federal CFIUS review pathway for foreign agricultural investments — two contrasting approaches to the same policy question. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-01-14 — Preemption of Real Property Discrimination Act: cross-connection with foreign-agricultural-land-national-security: HR7053’s federal preemption would override the citizenship-based state agricultural land ownership restrictions that have proliferated under a national security rationale. (novelty: 3)