HR7951-119

In Committee

Long-Term Good Neighbor Authority Act

119th Congress Introduced Mar 16, 2026

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, Long-Term Good Neighbor Authority Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers. The main policy domain is Immigration, Civil Rights, Government Operations.

Who Benefits and How

immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section HCE5AA1D950FC4BDB857A369099F1C93C: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Long-Term Good Neighbor Authority Act.
  • Section HC1C64DAACDF5464CB6DAFBD95F8785F3: 2. Good Neighbor Authority Section 8206(a) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (16 U.S.C. 2113a(a)) is amended— in paragraph (1)(B), by striking Governor and...

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, Long-Term Good Neighbor Authority Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.

Key Policy Areas

Immigration, Civil Rights, Government Operations

Primary Purpose

This bill, Long-Term Good Neighbor Authority Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.

Policy Domains

Immigration Civil Rights Government Operations

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
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immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers:
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: ih
federal implementing agencies:
immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers:

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Mar 26, 2026

Subcommittee Hearings Held

Mar 19, 2026

Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.

Mar 16, 2026

Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition …

Mar 16, 2026

Introduced in House

Mar 16, 2026

Mr. Valadao (for himself and Mr. Panetta) introduced the following …

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Immigration Civil Rights Government Operations
Actor Mappings
"the_secretary"
→ The Secretary identified in the operative section

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