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H.R. 6365: Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Land Claims Act of 2018

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H.R. 6365: Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Land Claims Act of 2018

115th Congress · introduced 2018-07-13 · Public Lands and Natural Resources · Latest: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 819.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2018-07-13 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 819. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Land Claims Act of 2018

Plain summary

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Land Claims Act of 2018 This bill establishes the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Land Grant-Merced Claims Commission to conduct a hearing on each qualifying petition that shows the claimed boundaries of a land grant-merced. A "land grant-merced" is a specified community land grant, or a community, village, town, or settlement, the land of which was granted by Spain or Mexico between 1689 and 1854 within the Territory of New Mexico, which now includes New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona, to the community, village, town, or pueblo, or to a person to found or establish a community, village, town, or settlement. After a hearing, the Commission may recommend as restitution any one of the following possible restitutions: convey federal land; grant stewardship rights to all or part of federal land; grant priority access and use rights to such lands for the harvesting of natural resources, such as timber and minerals, grazing and watering of livestock, or hunting and fishing; grant priority rights to leases, special use permits, and easements on federal land, to acquire federal lands that may become available for disposal, or to obtain new, unused, or unrenewed grazing allotments on federal lands. The bill prohibits the impairment of the rights of any acequia located on federal land as the result of enactment of this bill, including the right to the use of water by valid water right owners and access to the acequia for maintenance and improvements to its easement and infrastructure.

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Official text

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Land Claims Act of 2018

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2] · 0 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 6365, Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Land Claims Act of 2018 (2018-11-07)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr6365 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115