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H.R. 1944, Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2013 1 (June 27, 2013)

handle is hein.congrec/cbo11210 and id is 1 raw text is: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE COST ESTIMATE June 27, 2013 H.R. 1944 Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2013 As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on June 12, 2013 H.R. 1944 would deny federal economic development assistance to state or local governments that exercise the power of eminent domain for economic development purposes or to take property from a tax-exempt entity, such as a religious or nonprofit organization. (Eminent domain is the right to take private property for public use.) The bill also would prohibit federal agencies from engaging in such practices. Private property owners would be given the right to bring legal actions seeking enforcement of those provisions, and the bill would waive states' Constitutional immunity to such suits. Finally, H.R. 1944 would require the Attorney General to notify states and the public of how the legislation would affect individuals' property rights and to report to the Congress each year on private rights of action brought against state and local governments. The federal government provides economic development assistance to state and local governments through several programs, including the Community Development Block Grant Program, the Social Services Block Grant Program, Economic Development Administration Grants, Department of Agriculture grants and loans, and grants made by the regional commissions. CBO estimates that expenditures from those major programs totaled more than $7 billion in 2012 (although, depending on how the term is interpreted, some of those expenditures may not meet the definition of economic development under the bill). CBO expects that few state and local governments would receive reduced federal assistance because the use of eminent domain for the purposes targeted by the bill would be infrequent. Therefore, CBO estimates that implementing this legislation would have no significant net effect on those expenditures to state and local governments over the next five years. We estimate that additional reporting by the Attorney General would cost less than $500,000 over the next five years, assuming appropriation of the necessary amounts. Enacting H.R. 1944 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply.

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