HR 952
Passed a chamber
Lets owners of record of about 8.43 acres of Bureau of Land Management land in Sacramento, California buy back the federal government's reversionary interest in that land at appraised fair market value.
Official title: Reversionary Interest Conveyance Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
04-FEB-2025
Referred
04-FEB-2025
Passed
13-MAY-2025
Senate
Received
14-MAY-2025
Approved by committee
04-MAR-2026
Reported
23-JUL-2026
On the calendar
23-JUL-2026
Passed
22-SEP-2026
- Requires the Interior Department, acting through the Bureau of Land Management, to offer the reversionary interest to a buyer within two years of a request.
- Limits requests to owners of record of the parcels at the time of the request.
- Requires the buyer to pay the appraised fair market value plus all survey, appraisal, and administrative costs.
- Deposits sale proceeds in the Federal Land Disposal Account.
- Keeps valid existing rights and a 50-foot railroad right-of-way on each side of the Southern Pacific track centerline, and does not confirm adverse possession claims.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (04-FEB-2025); the text has changed since (Reported to Senate, 23-JUL-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Natural Resources Committee (House)
- Energy and Natural Resources Committee (Senate)
- Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee
Public Lands and Natural Resources
No cosponsors.