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The bill standardizes and preserves legal references by renaming a conservation statute—simplifying citations and legal continuity—but creates short-term confusion and modest administrative costs for governments and stakeholders.
State and local governments, federal agencies, and nonprofits will be able to rely on a single updated statute name and automatic continuation of existing citations, reducing citation confusion and preserving legal continuity across laws, maps, and regulations.
Nonprofits, state and local governments, courts, legal practitioners, and the public may face temporary confusion when tracking precedent, litigation, and regulatory references because the statute is renamed even though its protections do not change.
Local governments, federal agencies, and nonprofit stakeholders will incur modest administrative and printing costs to update documents, signage, maps, and educational materials to reflect the new title.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Renames the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to the Endangered Species Recovery Act and deems all references to the old short title as references to the new one.
Introduced August 1, 2025 by Harriet Hageman · Last progress August 1, 2025
Renames the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to the "Endangered Species Recovery Act" and specifies that any federal law, map, regulation, document, paper, or record that refers to the old name will be treated as referring to the new name. The change is strictly a textual renaming and does not, on its face, alter the law’s findings, purposes, or substantive provisions.