Dan Sullivan (R-AK)
Save Our Seas 2.0 Marine Debris Infrastructure Programs Reauthorization Act
A Republican bill with 1 Democratic cosponsor · See the cosponsor
Last activity — Held at the desk.
Passed one chamber, waiting for the other to take it up
Passed one chamber, and the other has not yet sent it to a committee or put it on its calendar.
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Its path through Congress
- Introduced
- Passed Senate unanimous consent
- Awaiting House
The Senate by unanimous consent (no one objected, so there was no vote): no senator's position on it was recorded.
What this bill would do
This act is called the "Save Our Seas 2.0 Marine Debris Infrastructure Programs Reauthorization Act". It amends the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act to reauthorize specific Environmental Protection Agency programs. The bill changes the expiration date for these programs from 2025 to 2030.
Yes
- Scored +5
Does this better protect air, water and wildlife?
Reauthorizes EPA programs to combat plastic waste in marine environments.
The opposite
No question was scored the opposite.
Who it would affect, and how
Potential Positive Impacts for People
- Combatting Plastic Waste: The bill reauthorizes EPA programs aimed at combating plastic waste through Section 2, which extends these efforts until 2030.
Potential Negative Impacts for People
- No negative impacts for people are explicitly mentioned in the provided text.
Groups and Interests Ranking
Every group the model scored this bill for, from -10 to +10. Tap or hover a score for the reason it gave.
- Environment Energy And Infrastructure
- Does this better protect air, water and wildlife? — Reauthorizes EPA programs to combat plastic waste in marine environments.
- 11/20/2025
- Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- Held at the desk.
- Received in the House.
- 11/19/2025
- Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
- Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8248; text: CR S8248)
- 10/29/2025
- Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
- Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Capito without amendment. Without written report.
- Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 230.
- 10/21/2025
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
- 1 Cosponsor added.
- Introduced in Senate
One bill Congress.gov lists as related to this one — companions in the other chamber, earlier versions, and bills this one absorbed or was folded into.
Sheldon WhitehouseDemocrat · Rhode Island