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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana bans foreign adversaries and prohibited actors from owning property near military installations
Last action · June 8, 2026: Effective date: 08/01/2026.Sponsors: Jay Gallé and 32 others
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What This Bill Does
Louisiana prohibits foreign adversaries and prohibited foreign actors from owning, leasing, or acquiring property located within 25 miles of a military installation, effective August 1, 2026. Violators face a $50,000 civil penalty, contract rescission, and mandatory or civil forfeiture of the property.
Property transactions near military bases involving foreign entities become subject to state restriction and potential forced judicial sale, while title insurers, lenders, and real estate professionals receive statutory immunity from liability for failing to identify a foreign adversary.
- State legislatures across the United States have increasingly enacted measures restricting land ownership near military installations by foreign entities and nationals from designated adversary nations. context
- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control maintains lists and databases of foreign adversaries referenced in state and federal regulatory frameworks. context
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Foreign adversaries and prohibited foreign actors
Prohibited from owning, leasing, or acquiring immovable property within 25 miles of military installations and subject to divestiture or civil forfeiture.
Attorney General
Empowered to investigate transactions, issue subpoenas, file civil actions for injunctions or divestiture, and collect civil penalties.
Real estate agents, title insurers, and lenders
Statutorily exempted from any duty to investigate transaction parties for foreign adversary status and protected from liability for failing to identify them.
Key Facts
- Foreign adversaries and prohibited foreign actors are prohibited from directly or indirectly owning, acquiring, leasing, or obtaining any interest in military-installation-adjacent land.
- Military-installation-adjacent land is defined as immovable property located within twenty-five miles of a military installation.
- A prohibited foreign actor that violates the restrictions is subject to a civil penalty of fifty thousand dollars and mandatory divestiture within one year of a final judgment.
- Property acquired in violation of the law is subject to civil forfeiture, with remaining proceeds paid to the Department of Justice after satisfying liens and mortgages.
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- The attorney general is authorized to issue investigative demands, subpoenas for depositions, seek injunctive relief, and order divestiture within ninety days.
- Exceptions to the ownership restrictions apply to United States citizens, permanent legal residents, juridical persons wholly owned by qualified individuals, and one-to-four family residential properties.
- Persons acquiring property may conclusively rely on an affidavit stating the buyer is not a foreign adversary or prohibited actor, unless actual fraud is proven.
- Attorneys, title insurers, lenders, mortgage servicers, notaries, real estate agents, and brokers have no legal duty to investigate whether a party is a foreign adversary and are not liable for failing to identify one.
- The provisions apply only to immovable property acquired by a foreign adversary or prohibited foreign actor on or after August 1, 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
What distance from a military base triggers the property ownership ban?
Does the law apply to residential home purchases by individuals?
Are real estate agents and title companies required to investigate buyers for foreign adversary connections?
What happens if a prohibited foreign actor acquires land in violation of the act?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
24 actions- Jun 8, 2026HouseEnrolledSigned by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 845.
- Jun 8, 2026HouseEffective date: 08/01/2026.
- Jun 1, 2026SenateEnrolledSigned by the President of the Senate.
- Jun 1, 2026HouseSent to the Governor for executive approval.
- May 31, 2026HouseEnrolledEnrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- May 29, 2026HouseScheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.
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- May 29, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- May 28, 2026HouseReceived from the Senate with amendments.
- May 27, 2026SenateFloorSenate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
- May 26, 2026SenateFloorReported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- May 25, 2026SenateIntroducedRead by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- May 21, 2026SenateCommitteeReported favorably.
- May 12, 2026SenateCommitteeRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B.
- May 11, 2026SenateReceived in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- May 7, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, returned to the calendar.
- May 7, 2026HouseCalled from the calendar.
- May 7, 2026HouseFloorRead third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
- May 6, 2026HouseFloorRead by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- May 6, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 05/07/2026.
- May 5, 2026HouseReported with amendments (15-0).
- Mar 9, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
- Feb 27, 2026HousePrefiled.
- Feb 27, 2026HouseCommitteeUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
- Feb 27, 2026HouseFirst appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
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Discoveries
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Establishment of State-Level Property Restrictions Near Military Bases
Louisiana establishes a formal statutory framework prohibiting foreign adversary property ownership within 25 miles of military sites, backed by civil penalties and the attorney general's enforcement powers.
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Sources
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