2025-2026 Regular SessionUS Congress Legislature

HB1820: FLASH Act Federal Lands Amplified Security for the Homeland Act

Legislative Summary

To address the public safety issues and environmental destruction currently impacting Federal lands along the southern border, enhance border security through the construction of navigable roads on Federal lands along the southern border, provide U.S. Customs and Border Protection access to Federal lands to improve the safety and effectiveness of enforcement activities, allow States to place temporary barriers on Federal land to secure the southern border, reduce the massive trash accumulations and environmental degradation along the southern border, reduce the cultivation of illegal cannabis on Federal lands, mitigate wildland fires caused by illegal immigration, and prohibit migrant housing on Federal lands.

Bill History

3/4/2025
Introduced in House
House of Representatives
3/4/2025
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, the Budget, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
House of Representatives
3/4/2025
Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.
House of Representatives
3/5/2025
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
House of Representatives
3/11/2025
Subcommittee Hearings Held
House of Representatives