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The bill keeps a small, popular conservation-education program for youth operating through 2031, at the cost of modest potential federal spending and minor administrative adjustments for state agencies.
Children, youth, and students can continue participating in the Junior Duck Stamp program from 2025–2031 because the bill reauthorizes program funding, preserving student competitions and hands-on learning opportunities.
Schools, educators, and youth groups retain access to conservation education curriculum and competitions that promote environmental literacy and wetland/waterfowl conservation.
Taxpayers could face modestly higher federal spending if Congress provides appropriations to cover the program over the 2025–2031 reauthorization period.
State wildlife agencies and other implementing offices may incur minor administrative work to update rules or processes because of technical edits to the program's definition of “State.”
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Extends the program's authorized funding window to 2025–2031 and makes minor edits to the definition of "State."
Extends the time window during which Congress may fund the Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program by replacing the previously authorized years (2006–2010) with 2025–2031, and makes small textual edits to the statutory definition of “State.” It does not itself appropriate money but allows the program to be eligible for future appropriations during the new period. The changes are limited in scope: one provision updates punctuation/wording in the definition of “State,” and the other updates the authorized years for funding. No new programs, mandates, or tax changes are created.
Introduced February 6, 2025 by Hillary Scholten · Last progress December 16, 2025