National Park Access Act
Latest action · Sep 9, 2015 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 204.
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.
- IntroducedJan 12, 2015
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
National Park Access Act
(Sec. 3) Requires the Director of the National Park Service to refund to each state all of the funds that it used to reopen and temporarily operate a unit of the National Park System during the period in October 2013 in which there was a lapse in appropriations for that unit.
Funds of the National Park Service appropriated after the enactment of this Act shall be used to carry out this Act.
Cosponsors 10
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 12, 2015 to Jun 9, 2015; 8 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-TN | Bob Corker | Original | Jan 12, 2015 |
| R-CO | Cory Gardner | Original | Jan 12, 2015 |
| R-AZ | John McCain | Original | Jan 12, 2015 |
| R-SD | John Thune | Original | Jan 12, 2015 |
| R-TN | Lamar Alexander | Original | Jan 12, 2015 |
| D-CO | Michael F. Bennet | Original | Jan 12, 2015 |
| R-UT | Mike Lee | Original | Jan 12, 2015 |
| R-UT | Orrin G. Hatch | Original | Jan 12, 2015 |
| R-OK | James M. Inhofe | Jan 13, 2015 | |
| D-NM | Martin Heinrich | Jun 9, 2015 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Energy and Natural Resources Committee | Referred Jan 12, 2015Markup Jul 30, 2015Reported Sep 9, 2015 |
| National Parks Subcommittee | Hearings Jun 10, 2015 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 9, 2015Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 114-124.
- Sep 9, 2015Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 204.
- Jul 30, 2015Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
- Jun 10, 2015Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 114-338.
- Jan 12, 2015Introduced in Senate
- Jan 12, 2015Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
In the Congressional Record 1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S8843, S8844 | Benjamin L. Cardin D-MD, Jeff Flake R-AZ, Ted Cruz R-TX | Dec 18, 2015 |
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.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Aug 18, 2015S. 145, National Park Access ActAs ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on July 30, 2015
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Hrg. 114-338 | PENDING NATIONAL PARKS LEGISLATION118 pages | Energy and Natural Resources Committee | Jun 10, 2015 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to require the Director of the National Park Service to refund to States all State funds that were used to reopen and temporarily operate a unit of the National Park System during the October 2013 shutdown.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- National Park Access Act
- Short Titles as Reported to Senate
- National Park Access Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 9, 2015Reported to Senate
- Jan 12, 2015Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
