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H.R. 302119th CongressPublic Lands and Natural Resources
Water Rights Protection Act
Sponsored by Rep. Celeste Maloy (R-UT) · 6 active : 6 Republicans
Latest action: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 334.
Where it standsBefore the House58 representatives score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- House: next
- Senate: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govWater Rights Protection Act of 2025
This bill limits the transfer of water rights from water users to the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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First, the bill prohibits Interior and USDA from conditioning the issuance or renewal of land use or occupancy agreements (e.g., permits and leases) on the transfer of any water right to the United States. Next, it prohibits Interior and USDA from requiring water users, including Indian tribes, to acquire water rights in the name of the United States as a condition of the issuance or renewal of a land use or occupancy agreement. Finally, it prohibits Interior and USDA from conditioning or withholding the issuance or renewal of land use or occupancy agreements on (1) limiting the date, time, quantity, location of diversion or pumping, or place of use of a state water right beyond any applicable limitations under state water law; or (2) modifying the terms and conditions of groundwater withdrawal, guidance and reporting procedures, or conservation and source protection measures established by a state.
Interior and USDA must also ensure that federal action imposes no greater restriction or regulatory requirement than under applicable state water law.
Further, Interior and USDA must not take actions that adversely affect state authority in permitting water usage or in adjudicating water rights.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Agriculture · HouseDischarged from · Referred to
- House Committee on Natural Resources · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology · HouseReferred to
Subjects
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of the Interior
- Indian lands and resources rights
- Intergovernmental relations
- Land use and conservation
- Licensing and registrations
- State and local government operations
- Water use and supply
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 8Swing 70–100
- 78Middle 30–70
- 14Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score. The bill is not before the Senate right now; these scores show where members would stand.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
6 activeShow all 6 cosponsors
- Andy Biggs (R-AZ-5)
- Blake D. Moore (R-UT-1)
- Ron Estes (R-KS-4)
- Russ Fulcher (R-ID-1)
- Burgess Owens (R-UT-4)
- Mike Kennedy (R-UT-3)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
