HR 1814 · 114th Congress 2015–2017, ended

To permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

Introduced Apr 15, 2015 Originated House Sponsor Raúl M. Grijalva D-AZ

Latest action · Apr 30, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedApr 15, 2015
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to make permanent the authorization for the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Requires not less than 1.5% of the annual authorized funding amount or $10 million, whichever is greater, to be used for projects that secure recreational public access to existing federal public land for hunting, fishing, and other recreational purposes.

Cosponsors 211

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 15, 2015 to Dec 7, 2016; 18 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster	Original	Apr 15, 2015
R-NY	Christopher P. Gibson	Original	Apr 15, 2015
R-WA	David G. Reichert	Original	Apr 15, 2015
D-MI	Debbie Dingell	Original	Apr 15, 2015
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo	Original	Apr 15, 2015
R-NH	Frank C. Guinta	Original	Apr 15, 2015
D-CA	Jared Huffman	Original	Apr 15, 2015
D-CO	Jared Polis	Original	Apr 15, 2015
D-HI	Mark Takai	Original	Apr 15, 2015
D-PA	Matt Cartwright	Original	Apr 15, 2015
R-PA	Michael G. Fitzpatrick	Original	Apr 15, 2015
D-CA	Mike Thompson	Original	Apr 15, 2015
D-MA	Niki Tsongas	Original	Apr 15, 2015
R-PA	Patrick Meehan	Original	Apr 15, 2015
R-NY	Peter T. King	Original	Apr 15, 2015
D-CA	Raul Ruiz	Original	Apr 15, 2015
R-IL	Robert J. Dold	Original	Apr 15, 2015
R-PA	Ryan A. Costello	Original	Apr 15, 2015
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.		Apr 21, 2015
D-CA	Lois Capps		Apr 21, 2015
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Apr 23, 2015
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick		Apr 30, 2015
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		Apr 30, 2015
D-CA	Eric Swalwell		Apr 30, 2015
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Apr 30, 2015
D-CA	Jackie Speier		Apr 30, 2015
D-TX	Marc A. Veasey		Apr 30, 2015
D-FL	Patrick Murphy		Apr 30, 2015
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Apr 30, 2015
D-MI	Sander M. Levin		Apr 30, 2015
D-MA	Seth Moulton		Apr 30, 2015
D-CA	Tony Cárdenas		Apr 30, 2015
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Apr 30, 2015
D-WA	Adam Smith		May 12, 2015
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal		May 12, 2015
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		May 12, 2015
D-MN	Betty McCollum		May 12, 2015
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		May 12, 2015
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		May 12, 2015
R-NY	John Katko		May 12, 2015
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier		May 12, 2015
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		May 12, 2015
D-VT	Peter Welch		May 12, 2015
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene		May 12, 2015
D-CA	Barbara Lee		May 13, 2015
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		May 13, 2015
D-MA	James P. McGovern		May 13, 2015
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		May 13, 2015
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		May 13, 2015
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		May 18, 2015
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		May 18, 2015
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		May 18, 2015
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		May 18, 2015
D-CA	John Garamendi		May 18, 2015
D-MN	Keith Ellison		May 18, 2015
D-MN	Richard M. Nolan		May 18, 2015
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle		May 21, 2015
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		May 21, 2015
D-WA	Jim McDermott		May 21, 2015
D-MD	John K. Delaney		May 21, 2015
D-NY	Kathleen M. Rice		May 21, 2015
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		May 21, 2015
D-MI	Brenda L. Lawrence		Jun 2, 2015
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Jun 2, 2015
D-IL	Cheri Bustos		Jun 2, 2015
D-WA	Denny Heck		Jun 2, 2015
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		Jun 2, 2015
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Jun 2, 2015
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Jun 2, 2015
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Jun 2, 2015
D-CA	Judy Chu		Jun 2, 2015
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Jun 2, 2015
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Jun 2, 2015
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		Jun 2, 2015
D-WI	Ron Kind		Jun 2, 2015
D-CA	Sam Farr		Jun 2, 2015
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney		Jun 2, 2015
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Jun 2, 2015
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Jun 8, 2015
D-MD	John P. Sarbanes		Jun 8, 2015
D-FL	Kathy Castor		Jun 8, 2015
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Jun 8, 2015
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson		Jun 9, 2015
D-CA	Brad Sherman		Jun 9, 2015
D-LA	Cedric L. Richmond		Jun 9, 2015
D-NC	David E. Price		Jun 9, 2015
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Jun 9, 2015
D-TX	Gene Green		Jun 9, 2015
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Jun 9, 2015
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Jun 9, 2015
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		Jun 9, 2015
D-NY	Steve Israel		Jun 9, 2015
D-NV	Dina Titus		Jun 12, 2015
R-NY	Elise M. Stefanik		Jun 12, 2015
R-NE	Jeff Fortenberry		Jun 12, 2015
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III		Jun 12, 2015
D-CA	Scott H. Peters		Jun 12, 2015
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Jun 12, 2015
D-CA	Ted Lieu		Jun 12, 2015
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		Jun 12, 2015
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Jun 17, 2015
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Jun 17, 2015
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Jun 17, 2015
D-DE	John C. Carney, Jr.		Jun 17, 2015
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		Jun 17, 2015
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Jun 23, 2015
D-GA	John Lewis		Jun 23, 2015
D-OR	Kurt Schrader		Jun 23, 2015
D-FL	Lois Frankel		Jun 23, 2015
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Jun 23, 2015
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge		Jun 23, 2015
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Jun 23, 2015
D-NM	Michelle Lujan Grisham		Jun 23, 2015
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Jun 23, 2015
R-FL	Carlos Curbelo		Jun 25, 2015
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		Jun 25, 2015
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Jun 25, 2015
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Jul 8, 2015
D-CA	Ami Bera		Jul 8, 2015
D-CT	Elizabeth H. Esty		Jul 8, 2015
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		Jul 8, 2015
D-CA	Norma J. Torres		Jul 8, 2015
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		Jul 8, 2015
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Jul 8, 2015
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Jul 14, 2015
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark		Jul 14, 2015
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo		Jul 14, 2015
R-MT	Ryan K. Zinke		Jul 14, 2015
D-CA	Mark Takano		Jul 21, 2015
D-IL	Bill Foster		Jul 22, 2015
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Jul 22, 2015
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Jul 22, 2015
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Jul 22, 2015
D-MA	William R. Keating		Jul 22, 2015
R-OH	Michael R. Turner		Jul 23, 2015
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Jul 23, 2015
R-FL	David W. Jolly		Jul 28, 2015
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Jul 28, 2015
R-NC	Patrick T. McHenry		Jul 28, 2015
D-TX	Filemon Vela		Jul 29, 2015
D-CA	Juan Vargas		Jul 29, 2015
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Jul 29, 2015
D-NC	Alma S. Adams		Sep 9, 2015
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Sep 9, 2015
D-IA	David Loebsack		Sep 9, 2015
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards		Sep 9, 2015
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Sep 9, 2015
D-CA	Jim Costa		Sep 9, 2015
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		Sep 9, 2015
I-AZ	Kyrsten Sinema		Sep 9, 2015
R-NY	Lee M. Zeldin		Sep 9, 2015
D-IL	Robin L. Kelly		Sep 9, 2015
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Sep 11, 2015
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Sep 11, 2015
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Sep 11, 2015
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Sep 11, 2015
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Sep 11, 2015
D-HI	Tulsi Gabbard		Sep 11, 2015
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		Sep 11, 2015
D-FL	Alan Grayson		Sep 18, 2015
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Sep 18, 2015
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman		Sep 18, 2015
D-NY	Brian Higgins		Sep 18, 2015
D-NJ	Donald Norcross		Sep 18, 2015
D-CA	Janice Hahn		Sep 18, 2015
D-TX	Joaquin Castro		Sep 18, 2015
D-IL	Tammy Duckworth		Sep 18, 2015
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Sep 18, 2015
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Sep 28, 2015
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Sep 28, 2015
D-CT	James A. Himes		Sep 28, 2015
D-CA	Loretta Sanchez		Sep 28, 2015
D-CA	Maxine Waters		Sep 28, 2015
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Sep 28, 2015
D-CA	Xavier Becerra		Sep 28, 2015
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee		Oct 1, 2015
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Oct 1, 2015
D-CA	Karen Bass		Oct 1, 2015
D-PR	Pedro R. Pierluisi		Oct 1, 2015
D-FL	Gwen Graham		Oct 6, 2015
D-CT	John B. Larson		Oct 6, 2015
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Oct 9, 2015
R-KY	Ed Whitfield		Oct 9, 2015
R-SC	Mark Sanford		Oct 9, 2015
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Oct 26, 2015
D-VI	Stacey E. Plaskett		Oct 26, 2015
R-TN	Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann		Oct 28, 2015
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Oct 28, 2015
D-NY	Grace Meng		Oct 28, 2015
D-TN	Jim Cooper		Oct 28, 2015
D-IN	André Carson		Nov 2, 2015
D-TX	Beto O'Rourke		Nov 2, 2015
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries		Nov 2, 2015
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell		Nov 2, 2015
R-NY	Richard L. Hanna		Nov 3, 2015
R-FL	Ander Crenshaw		Nov 19, 2015
R-MN	Tom Emmer		Dec 1, 2015
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Dec 8, 2015
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Dec 10, 2015
R-PA	Tim Murphy		Dec 10, 2015
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Mar 14, 2016
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Mar 14, 2016
R-NJ	Leonard Lance		Mar 17, 2016
D-NE	Brad Ashford		Apr 21, 2016
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Apr 21, 2016
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		May 11, 2016
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		May 16, 2016
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		Jun 3, 2016
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.		Jun 22, 2016
D-IN	Peter J. Visclosky		Nov 15, 2016
D-GA	David Scott		Dec 7, 2016

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Natural Resources Committee	Referred Apr 15, 2015
	Federal Lands Subcommittee	Referred Apr 30, 2015
	Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee	Referred Apr 30, 2015

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Apr 30, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Apr 30, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
Apr 15, 2015Introduced in House
Apr 15, 2015Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

In the Congressional Record 9

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
House	Debate and remarks H1861	David N. Cicilline D-RI	Apr 20, 2016
House	Debate and remarks H7260	Loretta Sanchez D-CA	Oct 28, 2015
House	Debate and remarks H7049	Jared Polis D-CO	Oct 21, 2015
House	Debate and remarks H6798	Ryan A. Costello R-PA	Oct 6, 2015
House	Debate and remarks H6007–H6010	Alan S. Lowenthal D-CA, Jared Huffman D-CA, Niki Tsongas D-MA, Raúl M. Grijalva D-AZ, Suzan K. DelBene D-WA	Sep 16, 2015

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Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: U.S. Const. art. I, sec. 8, cl. 3 To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes;

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 54, April 15, 2015, page H2270.

Related bills 7

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 338	A bill to permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund.	Identical bill	Feb 3, 2015
HR 502	Land and Water Conservation Fund Reauthorization and Fairness Act	Reintroduced Bill	Dec 20, 2018
S 556	Sportsmen's Act of 2015	Related bill	Dec 16, 2015
S 890	Land and Water Conservation Authorization and Funding Act of 2015	Related bill	Mar 26, 2015
S 1925	A bill to extend the secure rural schools and community self-determination program and to make permanent the payment in lieu of taxes program and the land and water conservation fund.	Related bill	Aug 4, 2015

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Titles 1

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Apr 15, 2015Introduced in House

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