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HR 302 · introduced · significant

Water Rights Protection Act

What this bill does

  • This bill prevents federal agencies from requiring water rights transfers as a condition for land permits or leases.
  • It affects water users, Indian tribes, and federal land managers in the Interior and Agriculture departments.
  • The bill takes effect immediately and has no direct federal spending, but may reduce federal water acquisition leverage.

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Community Threads

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  1. 01

    How might preventing federal agencies from conditioning permits on water rights transfers affect water availability in drought-prone regions?

  2. 02

    What tradeoffs exist between protecting water users' property rights and the federal government's ability to manage water resources on public lands?

  3. 03

    Which stakeholders—tribal nations, agricultural users, or environmental groups—would be most impacted by reducing federal leverage to acquire water rights?

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Sponsor · R-UT-2

Celeste Maloy

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Introduced 2025-11-25

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-11-25 · house · Calendars

    Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 334.

  2. 2025-11-25 · house · Discharge

    Committee on Agriculture discharged.

  3. 2025-11-25 · Committee

    Committee on Agriculture discharged.

  4. 2025-11-25 · house · Committee

    Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-384, Part I.

  5. 2025-11-25 · Committee

    Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-384, Part I.

  6. 2025-02-14 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.

  7. 2025-02-12 · house · Committee

    Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 22 - 16.

  8. 2025-02-12 · house · Committee

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  9. 2025-01-09 · house · IntroReferral

    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.

  10. 2025-01-09 · house · IntroReferral

    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.

  11. 2025-01-09 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  12. 2025-01-09 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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