HR 1565 · in committee · significant
Voluntary Public Access Improvement Act of 2025
- economy
What this bill does
- Extends funding through 2029 for a program that gives grants to states and tribes to encourage private landowners to allow public hunting and fishing access.
- Affects private farm, ranch, and forest landowners, state and tribal governments, and people who hunt and fish.
- Increases federal grant funding to incentivize voluntary public access agreements on private and wetland-reserve lands.
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Community Threads
Started by Cosponsor
- 01
How should federal funding be distributed between states with large rural areas versus densely populated regions to fairly support voluntary landowner participation?
- 02
What incentive level would be necessary to convince private landowners to grant public hunting and fishing access without displacing their primary land uses?
- 03
How would this program's success be measured, and what happens to lands if federal funding ends in 2029?
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Sponsor · D-MI-6
Debbie Dingell
Citizen cosponsors
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In Congress
5/ 435
House Reps cosponsoring
Introduced 2025-03-28
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Legislative timeline
2025-03-28 · house · Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit.
2025-02-25 · house · IntroReferral
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
2025-02-25 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House
2025-02-25 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House
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