To authorize the Secretary of the Army to convey to the State of North Carolina a certain parcel of real property located at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on which the State shall construct a veterans’ State home, and for other purposes.

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This bill is a straightforward, narrow authorization for the federal government to convey a specific parcel of surplus military land to a state for a constitutionally permissible purpose—supporting veterans. It does not expand federal power, restrict individual rights, or centralize authority. The conveyance is voluntary, state-initiated, and includes a reversion clause to protect federal interests. It fully respects federalism and the Tenth Amendment by enabling state action rather than mandating it.

• ✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
  The federal government has explicit authority over military installations under Article I, Section 8, Clause 12 (to raise and support Armies) and Clause 14 (to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces). Conveying a portion of a military base to a state for a veterans' home is a proper exercise of property management incidental to these powers. The bill does not exc…
• ✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
  The bill does not implicate any of the first ten amendments. It does not restrict speech, religion, assembly, press, petition, arms, quartering, search and seizure, self-incrimination, due process, takings, trial rights, or cruel and unusual punishment. It is a property conveyance with no effect on individual liberties.
• ✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
  The bill imposes no restrictions on individual conduct. It does not regulate personal behavior, property use, speech, labor, or belief. The only 'restriction' is a condition on the state's continued use of the conveyed land (for a veterans' home), which is a contractual condition voluntarily accepted by the state, not a restriction on individuals. The burden of justification is not triggered becau…
• ✓ Passes · Decentralization
  The bill passes all four questions of the decentralization test. (1) An individual or family could not handle the conveyance of a 20-acre federal military parcel; this is inherently a government-to-government transaction. (2) A local community or county could not handle the transfer of federal property; only the federal government can convey its own land. (3) The state of North Carolina could not …
• ✓ Passes · Due process and takings
  The bill does not take private property; it conveys federal property to a state. There is no deprivation of life, liberty, or property without due process. The reversion clause is a standard condition that does not bypass any procedural safeguards—it simply allows the federal government to reclaim the property if the state fails to use it for the stated purpose. No private party's property is affe…

Sources: Congress.gov: HR 10159 summary