[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8264 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8264

   To amend chapter 2003 of title 54, United States Code, to protect 
majority federally owned counties from loss of taxable acreage, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 16, 2020

  Mr. Gosar introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend chapter 2003 of title 54, United States Code, to protect 
majority federally owned counties from loss of taxable acreage, 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. NO NET LOSS OF TAXABLE ACREAGE.

    (a) Amendment.--Chapter 2003 of title 54, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 200311. No net loss of taxable acreage.
    ``Amounts from the Fund may not be used by the Secretary of the 
Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire private land within 
a county in which 50 percent or more of the land is owned by the 
Federal Government, unless the Secretary acquiring the private land 
disposes of an equal amount of federally owned land within that county 
during the same fiscal year to ensure no net loss of private, taxable 
acreage in that county.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for chapter 2003 of 
title 54, United States Code, is amended by adding after the item 
relating to section 200310 the following new item:

``Sec. 200311. No net loss of taxable acreage.''.
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