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S. 655

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Ending Natural Gas Companies' Seizure of Land for Export Profits Act
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Committee
Latest Action · March 10, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Congress
117th (2021–2023)
Introduced
March 10, 2021
Cosponsors (1)
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Ending Natural Gas Companies' Seizure of Land for Export Profits Act This bill restricts the use of eminent domain to take private or state land for the construction of a natural gas pipeline. Specifically, the bill prohibits the U.S. districts courts from having jurisdiction to condemn property in which a state owns any interest. Further, the bill prohibits the use of eminent domain to take private property for the construction of a pipeline that will export liquefied natural gas to a foreign country.

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