# 119-hr-2773: Landowner Easement Rights Act

119-hr-2773, Landowner Easement Rights Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Hageman, Harriet M. [R-WY-At Large] (R-WY); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2025-12-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-2773
- Congress: 119
- Title: Landowner Easement Rights Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-04-09
- Sponsor: Rep. Hageman, Harriet M. [R-WY-At Large] (R-WY)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## Summary

**This bill would impose a __30-year cap on conservation easements__ and give landowners a clear path to renegotiate or buy back older federal easements.** It would require the Secretary of the Interior to provide detailed maps and fair market value estimates and to meet set deadlines for renegotiation requests. - Landowners: Owners with eligible easements — those in effect more than 30 years or set before 1977 without an official map — could request renegotiation. The Secretary must provide a map and a fair market value (FMV) estimate and then either shorten the term to no more than 30 years or pay the owner FMV minus prior payments, adjusted for inflation, or allow the owner to buy back all or part of the easement at FMV. - Federal land management: After enactment the Secretary would not be able to create conservation easements longer than 30 years and must respond to renegotiation requests within six months. - Conservation practice: The bill shifts federal policy away from perpetual or very long easements toward time-limited protections, changing how long land stays under federal conservation restrictions.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Rep. Fedorchak, Julie [R-ND-At Large] (R-ND), 2025-04-09T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Landowners could renegotiate or buy back easements: benefit, high. If enacted, some landowners could renegotiate or buy back an eligible federal conservation easement. You could ask the Secretary of the Interior to cut the term to no more than 30 years. After you ask, the Secretary would send a detailed map and the current fair market value within 6 months. In a r…
- Future federal easements capped at 30 years: mixed, low. For new federal conservation easements signed after enactment, the term would be capped at 30 years. The Secretary would not be allowed to enter a new easement longer than 30 years. This would only apply to future easements created after the bill becomes law.
- Which easements would count as eligible: mixed, low. This bill would define which federal conservation easements are covered. A conservation easement would mean a voluntary deal with the Secretary that limits land use to protect conservation values. It would exclude agreements with Indian Tribes and utility-related deals. An easement would count as e…

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## Sources
- [119-hr-2773 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2773)

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- [119-hr-21: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-21)
- [119-hr-7651: Chloe Cole Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7651)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2773 (as of 2025-12-21).