2025-2026 Regular Session • US Congress Legislature
HB302: Water Rights Protection Act of 2025
Legislative Summary
To prohibit the conditioning of any permit, lease, or other use agreement on the transfer of any water right to the United States by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes.
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Bill History
1/9/2025
Introduced in House
House of Representatives
1/9/2025
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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
2/12/2025
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
House of Representatives
2/12/2025
Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 22 - 16.
House of Representatives
2/14/2025
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
House of Representatives
Status Information
Current Status
Introduced(1/9/2025)
Chamber
House of Representatives
Committee
Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology(House of Representatives)
Sponsors
Republican: 7
Primary Sponsor
Celeste Maloy
Republican