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The bill transfers clear title to Tulare so the city can preserve and improve local recreational and historic sites and reduce title uncertainty, at the cost of local fiscal responsibility and reduced federal control with some usage restrictions.
Residents of Tulare — especially children, families, and local nonprofits (the historic women's club) — gain clear ownership that enables repair, improvement, and preservation of an outdoor youth recreation facility and a historic community building.
The City of Tulare and nearby property owners get clearer, recordable title documentation, reducing future land‑title disputes and simplifying municipal planning and local economic development in the business corridor.
The public and adjacent property owners retain existing access and rights-of-way across the parcels, preserving current public access arrangements.
Local taxpayers and the City of Tulare may incur up-front and ongoing costs (preparing documentation, purchase/transfer costs, maintenance, or restoration) to acquire and operate the parcels.
Relinquishing the federal reversionary interest reduces future federal control over these parcels and could set a precedent that makes it harder for the federal government to assert or retain similar reversionary interests elsewhere.
The parcels will be subject to surface‑entry conditions from Public Law 105–195, which may impose usage restrictions that limit certain future activities on the land.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Relinquishes the federal reversionary interest in two Tulare, CA, railroad parcels to allow the City to obtain clear title for youth recreation and a historic women’s club.
Official title: To authorize the conveyance of and remove the reversionary interest of the United States in certain lands in the City of Tulare, California.
Introduced May 19, 2026 by David G. Valadao · Last progress May 19, 2026
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to relinquish the United States’ reversionary interest in two specified railroad parcels in Tulare, California, transferring clear title to the City of Tulare when Union Pacific Railroad conveys the parcels to the City. The conveyance intends to allow the city to preserve and improve an outdoor youth recreation facility and a historic women’s club. Requires the Secretary to record an instrument referencing prior U.S. documents, makes a map of the parcels publicly available at the Bureau of Land Management, preserves existing public and adjacent-owner access rights, and subjects the parcels to the same surface-entry conditions previously applied under a 1998 law; the city bears costs for preparing the recordable documentation.