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Panel advances bill creating state review of property conveyances near critical infrastructure to screen for foreign adversary risk
Summary
Senate File 76 passed the Appropriations Committee after Homeland Security outlined tasks to identify conveyances near defined critical infrastructure, but officials warned the program requires more staff and technical capacity than the bill’s initial fiscal note anticipated.
The Senate Appropriations Committee voted to advance Senate File 76, a bill that would expand state procedures to identify and, if warranted, investigate property conveyances near sites designated as critical infrastructure and screen for ownership by foreign adversaries.
Lynn Budd, director of the Office of Homeland Security, told the panel the office has been working under last year’s statute to identify lifeline-sector critical infrastructure—energy, communications, water and wastewater—and to define critical-infrastructure zones. Budd said the office favors reversing the statutory data flow so conveyance data would be sent…
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