Protecting America’s Rock Climbing Act
Latest action · Dec 19, 2024 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 774.
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.
- IntroducedMar 7, 2023
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Protecting America's Rock Climbing Act
This bill requires the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior to issue guidance on managing recreational climbing in designated wilderness areas.
Specifically, such departments must issue guidance not later than 18 months after this bill's enactment.
No significant management action may be taken without notice to the public and an opportunity to comment on the proposed action, with an exception for limited emergency action (time sensitive action necessary to protect natural resources or public health and safety).
Cosponsors 6
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 7, 2023 to May 1, 2024; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CO | Joe Neguse | Original | Mar 7, 2023 |
| D-NM | Melanie A. Stansbury | Jun 23, 2023 | |
| D-NV | Susie Lee | Oct 25, 2023 | |
| R-NC | Chuck Edwards | Nov 17, 2023 | |
| D-CA | Ted Lieu | Nov 30, 2023 | |
| R-PA | Brian K. Fitzpatrick | May 1, 2024 |
Committees 2
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 Mar 7, 2023Discharged Jun 21, 2023Markup Jun 21, 2023Reported Nov 18, 2024 |
| Federal Lands Subcommittee | Referred Mar 22, 2023Hearings Mar 28, 2023Discharged Jun 21, 2023 | |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Mar 7, 2023 Nov 18, 2024Discharged Dec 19, 2024 |
| Forestry and Horticulture Subcommittee | Referred Apr 4, 2023 |
Actions 12
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 19, 2024Committee on Agriculture discharged.
- Dec 19, 2024Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 774.
- Nov 18, 2024Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 118-749, Part I.
- Nov 18, 2024House Committee on Agriculture Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than Dec. 19, 2024.
- Jun 21, 2023Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged.
- Jun 21, 2023Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Jun 21, 2023Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
- Apr 4, 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry.
- Mar 28, 2023Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- Mar 22, 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
- Mar 7, 2023Introduced in House
- Mar 7, 2023Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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 2, 2023H.R. 1380, Protecting America’s Rock Climbing ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on June 21, 2023
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 169, no. 43, March 7, 2023, page H1150.
Printed hearings 2
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 118-80 | LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON H.R., TO IMPROVE RECREATION OPPORTUNITIES ON, AND FACILITATE GREATER ACCESS TO, FEDERAL PUBLIC LAND, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, "EXPANDING PUBLIC LANDS OUTDOOR RECREATION EXPERIENCES ACT" OR "EXPLORE ACT"85 pages | Natural Resources Committee | Nov 30, 2023 |
| Serial No. 118-12 | H.R. 930, H.R. 1319, H.R. 1380, H.R. 1527, H.R. 1576, H.R. 1614, H.R. 1642, AND H.R. 1667109 pages | Natural Resources Committee | Mar 28, 2023 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to issue guidance on climbing management in designated wilderness areas, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Protecting America’s Rock Climbing Act
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Protecting America’s Rock Climbing 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.
- Dec 19, 2024Reported in House
- Mar 7, 2023Introduced in House
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.
