US Congress House Bill 4288 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on December 11 2009 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2010-03-29 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Strengthening the Ownership of Private Property Act of 2009 or STOPP Act of 2009 - Prohibits federal financial assistance under defined federal economic development programs to a state or local government entity that: (1) uses the power of eminent domain to take property from a private entity and transfer ownership to another private entity; or (2) fails to provide, to any person displaced by the use of eminent domain for any economic development purpose, relocation assistance under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970. Excepts from the first clause property taken for: (1) use by a public utility; (2) a road open to the public or common carriers; (3) an aqueduct, pipeline, or similar use; (4) a prison or hospital; or (5) any use during and in relation to a national emergency or national disaster declared by the President. Provides a private right of action for the owner of any real property taken by conduct prohibited under this Act.

STOPP Act of 2009

Rep. Allen Boyd [D-FL]	Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]	Rep. Bob Goodlatte [R-VA]	Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin [D-SD]
Rep. Frank Lucas [R-OK]	Rep. James Sensenbrenner [R-WI]	Rep. Lamar Smith [R-TX]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-03-29		Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
2010-03-29		Referred to the Subcommittee on Rural Development, Biotechnology, Specialty Crops, and Foreign Agriculture.
2010-01-04		Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
2009-12-12		Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
2009-12-11		Referred to House Education and Labor
2009-12-11		Referred to House Natural Resources
2009-12-11		Referred to House Financial Services
2009-12-11		Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
2009-12-11		Referred to House Agriculture
2009-12-11		Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, Natural Resources, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/4288/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/hr4288/BILLS-111hr4288ih.pdf