Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act
The bill directs studies and a congressional report to improve coordination and funding access for cross‑boundary wildfire mitigation—potentially accelerating on‑the‑ground hazard reduction—while imposing modest study costs and risking regulatory changes or funding shifts that could affect landowners and other programs.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park Wild Horses Protection Act
The bill preserves a minimum, genetically diverse herd and strengthens monitoring and planning to support recreation and transparency, but it raises taxpayer costs and may constrain managers' ability to prevent ecological damage or cross-boundary conflicts.
Wabeno Economic Development Act
The bill trades localized economic gains and faster, more transparent permitting for construction and a modest one‑time federal receipt against risks to public land access, environmental protections, and longer‑term public control of national forest parcels.
Stop Illegal Fishing Act
The bill strengthens U.S. tools (sanctions, asset blocks, and reporting) to deter illegal and forced-labor-linked fishing—aiming to protect fish stocks, maritime industries, and workers—but it raises meaningful economic, administrative, supply-chain, and diplomatic risks if enforcement is broad, costly, or misapplied.
ARTIST Act
The bill protects Alaska Native subsistence, cultural commerce, and tribal consultation while narrowing who can sell 'authentic' handicrafts and constraining state regulatory authority, trading broader state conservation/anti-trafficking powers and some artisans' market flexibility for stronger federal protections of Indigenous practices.
American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act of 2026
The bill provides predictable federal funding, formal studies, and Tribal consultation to preserve and interpret historic battlefield sites—strengthening preservation capacity and education/tourism benefits—while imposing modest recurring federal costs and risks of local regulatory impacts, applicant uncertainty, and possible displacement of other preservation priorities.
Crystal Reservoir Conveyance Act
The bill transfers local control and permanent public access to Crystal Reservoir—bringing tailored water management and environmental protections—while shifting long-term expenses, legal risks, and planning uncertainty onto the City and local taxpayers, limiting certain commercial uses.
Florida Safe Seas Act of 2025
The bill trades away a textual ambiguity to give clearer authority to state and federal fisheries managers, but that same change—and any unspecified inserted language—could broaden regulatory reach and impose economic uncertainty and compliance costs on states and local operators.
Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act
The bill commissions a GAO study to improve coordination, funding access, and efficiency for cross‑boundary wildfire mitigation—potentially increasing treatments and federal dollars' value—but it risks delaying immediate actions and adding administrative costs or resource needs to implement recommended changes.
Benton MacKaye National Scenic Trail Feasibility Study Act of 2026
The bill would establish and accelerate planning for a 287‑mile protected nonmotorized trail that expands recreation and local tourism benefits, at the cost of potential new land‑use restrictions for nearby owners and modest infrastructure and federal spending impacts.
Southcentral Foundation Land Transfer Act of 2025
The bill transfers a federal parcel to a community health provider to expand local health services and speed reuse, while limiting the new owner's liability for past contamination — trading improved local care access and lower operating costs against potential environmental health risks and public cleanup or foregone federal revenue.
Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Project Lands Restoration Act
The bill transfers roughly 1,082.63 acres into trust and explicitly preserves tribal treaty and river protections—strengthening tribal sovereignty, cultural use, and environmental safeguards—while reducing potential gaming opportunities, shrinking federal park acreage for those parcels and limiting some fiscal transparency around the transfer.
Setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2026 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2027 through 2035.
The resolution increases multi-year budget predictability and speeds some budget processes (helping defense, certain agencies, and reconciliation-driven priorities) but does so by locking in ceilings and concentrating procedural power in ways that reduce flexibility, oversight, and could constrain investments or rights protections.
Star-Spangled Summit Act of 2026
The bill secures a long-term, fee‑exempt, fast permit for local residents and nonprofits to display a flag at Kyhv Peak, but it does so by removing environmental review and shifting costs and access priorities in ways that reduce federal environmental oversight and broaden taxpayer liability.
North Dakota Trust Lands Completion Act of 2026
The bill streamlines and clarifies State–Federal land exchanges and strengthens tribal trust and conservation protections in North Dakota—providing title clarity and continuity for leases and grazing—while accelerating conveyances and reducing some procedural protections, which raises environmental, administrative, and fiscal risks for communities, agencies, and certain landholders.
Designate the General George C. Marshall House in the Commonwealth of Virginia, as an affiliated area of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
The bill secures federal affiliation, interpretation support, and preserved public access for the Marshall House while keeping local control, but stops short of full federal ownership or responsibility—potentially shifting costs and limiting federal protections compared with a full NPS unit.
To designate the General George C. Marshall House, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, as an affiliated area of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
The bill secures public access and NPS planning support for the Marshall House as an affiliated site, but stops short of federal ownership or regulatory authority—improving preservation capacity while leaving funding and protection of the surrounding setting largely to local stakeholders.
Sloan Canyon Conservation and Lateral Pipeline Act
The bill facilitates regional water infrastructure and utility maintenance while adding conservation acreage, but accelerates approvals and relaxes controls over federal land materials in ways that could harm public lands and reduce federal revenue/oversight.
Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2025
The bill prioritizes protecting tribal land rights, clarifying parcels, and preserving public access while accelerating conveyances — at the cost of limiting certain corporate land acquisitions and development, reducing some federal land flexibility, and imposing administrative and potential legal burdens on agencies and stakeholders.
Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026
The bill directs substantial new investments and program expansions to support farmers, specialty crops, rural infrastructure, conservation, and nutrition, accelerating technology adoption and resilience but doing so with large new budget commitments, added administrative complexity, potential inequities favoring larger or better‑resourced actors, and some rollbacks of environmental and regulatory safeguards.
Transfer administrative jurisdiction over certain parcels of Federal land in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and for other purposes.
The bill secures a modest expansion and clearer boundaries for Harpers Ferry National Historical Park while transferring and exempting a ~25‑acre parcel to CBP for training—improving federal operations and administrative certainty but reducing public park acreage, raising local governance and precedent concerns, and imposing modest taxpayer/agency costs.
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
The bill speeds larger advance federal payments to farmers and private forest owners to accelerate recovery from wildfires and emergency threats, but increases upfront federal costs, administrative complexity, and repayment risk for recipients.
Scarper Ridge Golden Gate National Recreation Area Boundary Adjustment Act
The bill expands and protects recreational open space under National Park Service management—benefiting residents and visitors and improving site upkeep—while imposing new land-use limits for some local owners and adding federal maintenance responsibilities and costs.
Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act of 2025
The bill aims to improve public safety, transit security, and the cleanliness/appearance of Washington, D.C., while increasing federal oversight and enforcement—but these gains come with higher costs, potential resource diversion from services, jurisdictional friction with local authorities, and significant civil‑liberties and immigrant‑community impacts.
American Water Stewardship Act
The bill secures multi‑year federal continuity and improved oversight for regional water restoration and monitoring—potentially improving environmental and public‑health outcomes—but does so while increasing federal spending, imposing cost‑share and administrative burdens that may disadvantage small local governments and nonprofits, and creating implementation or fairness tradeoffs.
Sea Turtle Rescue Assistance and Rehabilitation Act of 2025
The bill provides targeted federal funding and a dedicated emergency response fund to strengthen sea turtle rescue and set standards for rehabilitation, but it creates modest new federal costs and eligibility rules that may exclude smaller rehab providers and limit support for longer-term recovery work.
Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvests Act of 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. detection, enforcement, and international cooperation to curb IUU fishing and forced labor—benefiting fish stocks, lawful fishers, and consumers—but does so with new spending, compliance costs, privacy and due‑process risks, and potential diplomatic and operational tradeoffs.
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
The bill expands and accelerates emergency restoration aid for wildfire-affected private landowners (including federally- or human-caused fires), improving recovery speed but increasing federal costs, oversight risk, and administrative complexity.
Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act
The bill preserves hunters' access and state authority by blocking a nationwide federal ban on lead ammunition/tackle while allowing targeted, data-driven restrictions, at the cost of ongoing public-health and wildlife lead exposure and slower, potentially contested protections.
MAWS Act of 2026
The bill provides a short-term program to boost incomes for watermen and create processing demand for invasive blue catfish while improving data for managers, but it increases federal spending and risks market distortions, environmental side-effects, and added compliance costs for small operators.
