CONGRESS FOR VOTERS

Shomari Figures (D-AL)

ESTUARIES Act

H.R. 3962 · House bill Environmental Protection

A Democratic bill with 7 Republican cosponsors · See all 26 cosponsors

Last activity — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

In the other chamber's committee

Passed one chamber and has been handed to a committee in the other.

The committee decides whether it goes any further, and most bills that reach a committee never leave it. A committee that simply does nothing kills a bill without anyone ever voting against it, so no news from here is usually the news.

Its path through Congress

  1. Introduced
  2. Passed House voice vote
  3. In Senate committee

The House by voice vote (members called out yes or no together): no member's position on it was recorded.

What this bill would do

This Act, known as the "ESTUARIES Act," aims to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the National Estuary Program. It adds Mississippi Sound, Mississippi, to the list of designated areas in the program. Additionally, the bill extends the program's timeline by changing a date from 2026 to 2031. However, the bill places specific restrictions on how the EPA Administrator can use funds for the Mississippi Sound addition during fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

Yes

  • Scored +5

    Does this better protect air, water and wildlife?

    The bill expands the National Estuary Program to include Mississippi Sound and extends the program's duration to 2031.

The opposite

No question was scored the opposite.