HR 3857 · Snow Water Supply Forecasting Reauthorization Act of 2025
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held.
- Introduced
- Jun 10, 2025
- Latest action
- Mar 17, 2026
- Sponsor
- Rep. Jeff Hurd [R-CO-3]
- Policy area
- Water Resources Development
- Cosponsors
- 2
Summary
Snow Water Supply Forecasting Reauthorization Act of 2025 This bill reauthorizes through FY2031 and modifies the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program of the Bureau of Reclamation. Under the existing program, Reclamation implements activities to improve snowpack measurements used for water supply forecasts in certain western states. The bill directs Reclamation to incorporate, to the greatest extent practicable, information from technologies that provide complete integration of accurate, timely, and spatially complete snowpack measurements and models when determining water supply forecasts or allocations to federal water contractors. Additionally, the bill requires the program's framework to emphasize the deployment of technologies that provide integration of snowpack measuring and modeling. The bill also requires the program's focus—activities that maintain, establish, expand, or advance snowpack measurement and integrated modeling—to place an emphasis on (1) enhancing activities to achieve improved snow and water supply forecasting results that are more responsive to changing weather and watershed conditions, (2) real-time integration of measurement and modeling activities with water supply forecasts, (3) activities in river basins where measurements or modeling can produce snow and water supply data to inform water management decisions, and (4) building the capacity of the program partners to implement and adapt to the new measurement and forecast capabilities.
Recent actions
- Mar 17, 2026 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held.
- Dec 11, 2025 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- Dec 10, 2025 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Dec 10, 2025 On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
- Dec 10, 2025 Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
- Dec 10, 2025 Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5136)
- Dec 9, 2025 At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules. Mr. Hurd (CO) objected to the vote on the grounds that a quorum was not present. Further proceedings on the motion were postponed. The point of no quorum was considered as withdrawn.
- Dec 9, 2025 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3857.
Votes
No recorded votes are available for this bill.