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The bill extends Sea Grant authorization through FY2025–FY2031 to provide continuity for coastal research, resilience, and educational programs, but it does not secure funding and may constrain future changes to program structure.
Coastal communities and fisheries stakeholders retain Sea Grant program authorization through FY2025–FY2031, supporting ongoing coastal resilience, fisheries science, and local marine resource management services they rely on.
Researchers, universities, and extension programs keep authorized Sea Grant funding through FY2025–FY2031, helping sustain ocean science, outreach, and education activities.
Universities and state partners gain multi-year authorization certainty that aids longer-term planning for research and outreach projects.
Grantees and institutions may be left expecting sustained or increased funding even though the extension authorizes the program but does not appropriate or guarantee additional funds.
Longer statutory authorization could lock in existing formulas or program structures, reducing flexibility for future reforms or program adjustments.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Introduced July 31, 2025 by Maria E. Cantwell · Last progress July 31, 2025
Extends the statutory authorization period for the National Sea Grant College Program so that its authorization covers each of fiscal years 2025 through 2031, and makes small wording and paragraph-labeling edits to the existing statute. The change updates timeframes in the law but does not itself appropriate new funds or change funding amounts or program structure.