Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2023
Latest action · Jul 21, 2023 Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials.
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.
- IntroducedJul 20, 2023
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2023
This bill requires hydraulic fracturing operations to test for and report on underground sources of drinking water that are contaminated by such operations. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a process to extract underground resources such as oil or gas from a geologic formation by injecting water, a propping agent (e.g., sand), and chemical additives into a well under enough pressure to fracture the geological formation.
Specifically, this bill revises requirements governing state underground injection control programs. In order to obtain primary enforcement responsibility for such programs, states must prohibit the underground injection of fluids or propping agents pursuant to hydraulic fracturing operations related to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities unless the hydraulic fracturing operations agree to test for and report on contamination of drinking water.
Hydraulic fracturing operations are exempted from those testing and reporting requirements if there is no accessible underground source of drinking water within a radius of one mile of the site where the operations occur.
The Environmental Protection Agency must establish and maintain a publicly accessible and searchable database of the testing results.
Cosponsors 22
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 20, 2023 to Jul 25, 2023; 20 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-WA | Adam Smith | Original | Jul 20, 2023 |
| D-CA | Brad Sherman | Original | Jul 20, 2023 |
| D-CO | Diana DeGette | Original | Jul 20, 2023 |
| D-VA | Donald S. Beyer, Jr. | Original | Jul 20, 2023 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Jul 20, 2023 |
| D-CA | Grace F. Napolitano | Original | Jul 20, 2023 |
| D-CA | Jared Huffman | Original | Jul 20, 2023 |
| D-NY | Joseph D. Morelle | Original | Jul 20, 2023 |
| D-CA | Juan Vargas | Original | Jul 20, 2023 |
| D-CA | Mark DeSaulnier | Original | Jul 20, 2023 |
| D-WI | Mark Pocan | Original | Jul 20, 2023 |
| D-PA | Matt Cartwright | Original | Jul 20, 2023 |
| D-CA | Nanette Diaz Barragán | Original | Jul 20, 2023 |
| D-NY | Nydia M. Velázquez | Original | Jul 20, 2023 |
| D-MI | Rashida Tlaib | Original | Jul 20, 2023 |
| D-CA | Ro Khanna | Original | Jul 20, 2023 |
| D-MA | Stephen F. Lynch | Original | Jul 20, 2023 |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Original | Jul 20, 2023 |
| D-OR | Suzanne Bonamici | Original | Jul 20, 2023 |
| D-NY | Yvette D. Clarke | Original | Jul 20, 2023 |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Jul 25, 2023 | |
| D-NY | Grace Meng | Jul 25, 2023 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Jul 20, 2023 |
| Environment Subcommittee | Referred Jul 21, 2023 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 21, 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials.
- Jul 20, 2023Introduced in House
- Jul 20, 2023Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 169, no. 125, July 20, 2023, page H3891.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 2164 | Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2021 | Reintroduction of | Mar 24, 2021 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require testing of underground sources of drinking water in connection with hydraulic fracturing operations, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2023
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 20, 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.
