HR 3962
ESTUARIES Act
Summary
Enhancing Science, Treatment, and Upkeep of America’s Resilient and Important Estuarine Systems Act or the ESTUARIES Act This bill reauthorizes through FY2031 grants provided under the National Estuary Program to protect and restore estuaries of national significance. Estuaries are coastal waterbodies where freshwater from rivers and streams mixes with the ocean’s saltwater. Under the existing program, the Environmental Protection Agency provides grants for (1) developing and implementing comprehensive conservation and management plans for estuaries of national significance, and (2) addressing issues that threaten the ecological and economic well-being of such estuaries. The existing program provides grants to states, regional water pollution control agencies and entities, state coastal zone management agencies, interstate agencies, other public or nonprofit private agencies, institutions, organizations, and individuals.
Bill status
- Status
- Passed House
- Sponsor
- Rep. Shomari Figures [D-AL-2]
- Cosponsors
- 26
- Policy area
- Environmental Protection
- Introduced
- 2025-06-12
- Latest action
- 2025-12-16: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Committee referrals
- Environment and Public Works Committee: Senate · Referred To · 2025-12-16
- Transportation and Infrastructure Committee: House · Reported By · 2025-12-12
- Transportation and Infrastructure Committee: House · Markup By · 2025-09-17
- Transportation and Infrastructure Committee: House · Discharged from · 2025-09-17
- Transportation and Infrastructure Committee: House · Referred To · 2025-06-12
Recent actions
- 2025-12-16: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
- 2025-12-15: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2025-12-15: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5872)
- 2025-12-15: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5872)
- 2025-12-15: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3962.