To amend the Organic Act of Guam to provide an exception to the "public purpose" requirement for certain land transfers in the case of a transfer restoring such land to the original landowner or heirs, and for other purposes.
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill removes the federal public-purpose condition when excess federal real property previously transferred to Guam is then conveyed to the property's original owner or that owner's heirs. Guam must establish a process for those transfers and report to Congress on the process within 180 days after enactment.
If a recipient later sells the restored property to a foreign person other than an heir, the sale is treated as a covered transaction under the Defense Production Act. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States must review that transaction.
Who Benefits and How
Original Guam landowners and their heirs gain a clearer route to recover qualifying ancestral or family property. Families otherwise blocked by the public-purpose condition may receive land for private ownership or use. Guam gains express federal authority to administer a restoration process.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Government of Guam must design the transfer process, verify ownership and heirship, complete conveyances, and report to Congress. CFIUS staff must review covered foreign resales. Foreign purchasers face mandatory national-security review, while title professionals and sellers must identify whether a proposed buyer triggers the rule. Federal and territorial administrative accounts bear implementation costs.
Key Provisions
- Exempts qualifying Guam land restorations from the public-purpose condition.
- Limits the exemption to original owners and their heirs.
- Covers excess federal real property previously transferred to Guam.
- Requires Guam to establish a transfer process.
- Requires a report to Congress within 180 days.
- Treats later sales to non-heir foreign persons as CFIUS covered transactions.
- Requires CFIUS review of those foreign purchases.
- Preserves heir transfers from the specified foreign-sale trigger.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Allows Guam to restore federally transferred excess land to original owners or heirs without the usual public-purpose condition, requires a territorial transfer process and congressional report, and subjects later foreign purchases to mandatory CFIUS review.
Key Policy Areas
Guam Land Restoration, Federal Real Property, Indigenous and Heir Property, Foreign Investment Review, Territorial Government
Primary Purpose
Allows Guam to restore federally transferred excess land to original owners or heirs without the usual public-purpose condition, requires a territorial transfer process and congressional report, and subjects later foreign purchases to mandatory CFIUS review.
Policy Domains
Guam land transfers to original owners and heirs
Identified Gains
- Original Guam landowners
- Heirs of original Guam landowners
- Guam families seeking ancestral land restoration
- Government of Guam land-restoration program
Identified Costs
- Government of Guam land-transfer staff
- Guam ownership-verification staff
- Guam congressional-reporting staff
- Territorial land-administration accounts
CFIUS review of later foreign purchases
Identified Gains
- Federal foreign-investment security programs
- Guam communities near strategically sensitive land
Identified Costs
- Foreign buyers of restored Guam property
- CFIUS transaction-review staff
- Sellers of restored Guam property
- Guam real-estate title professionals
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition …
Introduced in House
Mr. Moylan introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Foreign buyers of restored Guam property, Guam families seeking ancestral land restoration, Guam real-estate title professionals
Positive-direction: Guam families seeking ancestral land restoration, Heirs of original Guam landowners, Original Guam landowners
Negative-direction: Foreign buyers of restored Guam property, Guam real-estate title professionals
Government of Guam land-restoration program, Government of Guam land-transfer staff, Guam ownership-verification staff
Positive-direction: Government of Guam land-restoration program
Negative-direction: Guam ownership-verification staff
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "recipient"
- → Original owner of qualifying Guam land or an heir
- "territory"
- → Government of Guam administering transfers
- "federal_transferor"
- → Federal agency that transferred excess real property
- "buyer"
- → Foreign person purchasing restored Guam land
- "seller"
- → Original owner or heir selling restored property
- "reviewer"
- → Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States
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Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
The original owner of excess federal real property transferred to Guam or an heir of that owner.
A later sale of restored Guam property to a foreign person who is not an heir, treated as a CFIUS covered transaction.
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