HR 831 United States House · 119th Congress

Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program Amendment Act of 2025

Summary

Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program Amendment Act of 2025 This bill establishes an interest-bearing account for the nonfederal contributions for the Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program, a cooperative effort between federal and nonfederal entities in Arizona, California, and Nevada. The program works to recover multiple species listed under the Endangered Species Act. Currently, the pace of funding exceeds the pace of work. The bill allows the nonfederal contributions deposited in the fund to be made available, without further appropriation, for the program in the future. However, amounts derived from interest earned on amounts in the fund are subject to the availability of appropriations.

Issues: ✓ Environment

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Sep 2025

House Passage

Mar 2026

Senate Passage

President

Introduced Jan 31, 2025 Last action Mar 17, 2026

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What changed between versions

Introduced in House → Engrossed in House · 3 edits · Mar 16, 2026

MINOR

The engrossed version of HR 831 makes one substantive policy change and several formatting adjustments. The key change is that interest earned on the Non-Federal Funding Account for the Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program now requires an appropriation before it can be spent, whereas the introduced version allowed both principal contributions and interest to be used without further appropriation. The remaining changes are structural reorganization of subsection numbering and blank-line formatting.

FISCAL

Interest earned on the Non-Federal Funding Account is no longer available for expenditure without further appropriation. The introduced version allowed both deposited contributions and interest to be spent 'without further appropriation.' The engrossed version separates them: principal contributions remain available without further appropriation, but interest must first be appropriated before it can be used.

TECHNICAL

Subsection (3)(B) was restructured from a single provision into two sub-subsections labeled (i) Expenditure and (ii) Interest, clarifying the separate treatment of principal versus interest funds.

Formatting changes throughout: blank lines added between subsections, and some parenthetical numbering adjusted for consistency. A minor typo was introduced in paragraph (5)(C), where 'in the Fund' became 'the Fund' (missing the word 'in').

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the House by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

Full legislative history

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Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Amendments

Mar 16, 2026

Introduced

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2527)

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Mar 16, 2026

Lower · Passed

Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2527)

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Mar 16, 2026

Introduced

Mr. Wittman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

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Sep 15, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-278.

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Jul 15, 2025

Introduced

Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.

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Jul 15, 2025

Lower · Passed

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

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Jan 31, 2025

Committee

Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

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Jan 31, 2025

Introduced

Introduced in House

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1 primary · 5 co-sponsors