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H.R. 2860119th CongressEnvironmental Protection
Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative Reauthorization Act of 2025
Sponsored by Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA) · 6 active : 6 Democrats
Latest action: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 427.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate6 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedJun 3, 2026
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govNorthwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative Reauthorization Act of 2025
This bill revises and reauthorizes for seven years the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative and its Northwest Straits Advisory Commission. The initiative and the commission work to protect and restore marine waters, habitats, and species of the Northwest Straits region (i.e., the waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and of Puget Sound from the Canadian border to the south end of Snohomish County in Washington state).
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Among other duties, the commission must provide resources and technical support for marine resources committees, develop scientifically sound restoration and protection recommendations, and serve as a public forum for informal policy discussions about the marine ecosystem of the Northwest Straits region.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Natural Resources · HouseReported by · Markup by · Discharged from · Referred to
- Water, Wildlife and Fisheries · HouseHearings by (subcommittee) · Referred to
Subjects
- Advisory bodies
- Aquatic ecology
- Ecology
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Intergovernmental relations
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Pacific Ocean
- Seashores and lakeshores
- State and local government operations
- Washington State
- Water quality
- Wetlands
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Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 6Swing 70–100
- 76Middle 30–70
- 18Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
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
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- Emily Randall (D-WA-6)
- Marilyn Strickland (D-WA-10)
- Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA-1)
- Adam Smith (D-WA-9)
- Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-7)
- Kim Schrier (D-WA-8)
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.
