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HR 774 · in committee · significant

PASTURES Act

What this bill does

  • This bill prevents the USDA and Department of Interior from penalizing livestock owners for grazing on certain public lands without fences.
  • It affects ranchers and livestock owners who use National Forests, Fish and Wildlife lands, and public grazing permit areas.
  • The federal government becomes responsible for building and maintaining fences to prevent unwanted grazing on covered lands.

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Community Threads

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  1. 01

    How would shifting fence construction and maintenance costs to federal taxpayers rather than livestock owners affect public land budgets in your region?

  2. 02

    What safeguards should exist to prevent livestock from damaging sensitive ecosystems or competing with wildlife on unfenced public lands?

  3. 03

    Why might the USDA and Interior Department have originally required ranchers to maintain fences, and what problems could removing that requirement create?

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Sponsor · R-WY

Harriet M. Hageman

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Introduced 2025-02-28

Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-02-28 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.

  2. 2025-02-28 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.

  3. 2025-01-28 · 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.

  4. 2025-01-28 · 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.

  5. 2025-01-28 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  6. 2025-01-28 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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