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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2173 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 2173

 To require the Administrator of General Services to sell certain 
 Federal buildings, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 June 25 (legislative day, June 24), 2025

 Ms. Ernst introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
 referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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 A BILL

 To require the Administrator of General Services to sell certain 
 Federal buildings, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``For Sale Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. CLOSURE AND SALE OF UNDERUTILIZED FEDERAL BUILDINGS.

    (a) Consolidation; Sale.--

    (1) Consolidation.--Not later than 18 months after the date 
 of enactment of this Act, any Federal agency located within a 
 Federal building described in paragraph

    (2) as of that date of 
 enactment shall vacate the applicable Federal building and 
 relocate to another Federal building.

    (2) Sale.--Not later than 2 years after the vacancy of 
 existing Federal agencies in accordance with paragraph

    (1) , and 
 subject to subsection

    (b)

    (2) , the Administrator of General 
 Services (referred to in this section as the ``Administrator'') 
 shall sell for fair market value at highest and best use the 
 following Federal buildings:
        (A) The Department of Agriculture South Building, 
 located at 1400 Independence Avenue SW in Washington, 
 DC.
        (B) The Hubert H. Humphrey Federal Building, 
 located at 200 Independence Avenue SW in Washington, 
 DC.
            (C) The Frances Perkins Federal Building, located 
 at 200 Constitution Avenue NW in Washington, DC.
            (D) The James V. Forrestal Building, located at 
 1000 Independence Avenue SW in Washington, DC.
        (E) The Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building, 
 located at 1900 E. Street NW in Washington, DC.
        (F) The Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, located 
 at 451 7th Street SW in Washington, DC.

    (b) Prohibition on Foreign Ownership.--

    (1) === Definitions. ===
-In this subsection, the terms 
 ``beneficial owner'', ``foreign entity'', and ``foreign 
 person'' have the meanings given those terms in 

section 2 of 
 the Secure Federal LEASEs Act (40 U.S.C. 585 note; Public Law 
 116-276).

    (2) Prohibition.--In conducting the sale required under 
 subsection

    (a)

    (2) , the Administrator may not sell any Federal 
 building described in that subsection to any foreign person, 
 any foreign entity, or any entity of which a foreign person is 
 a beneficial owner.
            (c) Net Proceeds.--

    (1) In general.--Of the net proceeds received from the sale 
 required under subsection

    (a)

    (2) --
        (A) such amount as may be required to implement 
 this section, as determined by the Administrator, shall 
 be deposited into an account in the Federal Buildings 
 Fund established by 

section 592

    (a) of title 40, United 
 States Code (referred to in this subsection as the 
 ``Fund''); and
        (B) any additional amounts after the deposit 
 required under subparagraph
        (A) shall be deposited into 
 the general fund of the Treasury for purposes of 
 reducing the deficit.

    (2) Future appropriation.--On deposit of amounts into the 
 Fund under paragraph

    (1)
        (A) , those amounts may be expended only 
 subject to a specific future appropriation.
            (d) Prohibition on Additional Property Acquisition.--No other 
building or property may be purchased or leased by the Administrator or 
any Federal agency or department on a short-term or long-term basis as 
part of the closing or consolidation of the Federal agencies impacted 
by the sale required under subsection

    (a)

    (2) .

    (e) Exemption From Certain Requirements.--The sale required under 
subsection

    (a)

    (2) shall be exempt from the requirements of--

    (1) section 501 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance 
 Act (42 U.S.C. 11411);

    (2) the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 
 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.);

    (3) division A of subtitle III of title 54, United States 
 Code (formerly known as the ``National Historic Preservation 
 Act''); and

    (4) chapters 5 and 87 of title 40, United States Code.
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