Help Hoover Dam Act
Latest action · Dec 10, 2024 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 681.
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 21, 2024
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Cosponsors 10
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 21, 2024 to Apr 15, 2024; 9 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-AZ | Debbie Lesko | Original | Mar 21, 2024 |
| D-NV | Dina Titus | Original | Mar 21, 2024 |
| D-CA | Grace F. Napolitano | Original | Mar 21, 2024 |
| D-AZ | Greg Stanton | Original | Mar 21, 2024 |
| R-AZ | Juan Ciscomani | Original | Mar 21, 2024 |
| R-NV | Mark E. Amodei | Original | Mar 21, 2024 |
| R-AZ | Paul A. Gosar | Original | Mar 21, 2024 |
| D-AZ | Ruben Gallego | Original | Mar 21, 2024 |
| D-NV | Steven Horsford | Original | Mar 21, 2024 |
| R-CA | Ken Calvert | Apr 15, 2024 |
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 Mar 21, 2024Discharged Jun 12, 2024Markup Jun 12, 2024Reported Dec 10, 2024 |
| Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee | Referred May 21, 2024Hearings May 22, 2024 |
Actions 9
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 10, 2024Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 118-834.
- Dec 10, 2024Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 681.
- Jun 12, 2024Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries Discharged
- Jun 12, 2024Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Jun 12, 2024Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
- May 22, 2024Subcommittee Hearings Held
- May 21, 2024Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries.
- Mar 21, 2024Introduced in House
- Mar 21, 2024Referred to the House Committee on 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.
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
- Oct 8, 2024H.R. 7776, Help Hoover Dam ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on June 12, 2024
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 170, no. 50, March 21, 2024, page H1354.
Printed hearings 4
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. 118-124 | H.R. 7776, H.R. 7872, H.R. 7938, and H.R. 826362 pages | Natural Resources Committee | May 22, 2024 |
| Serial No. 118-36 | WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ACTS: STATUS OF PAST PROVISIONS AND FUTURE NEEDS81 pages | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | Dec 5, 2023 |
| Serial No. 118-7 | REVIEW OF FISCAL YEAR 2024 BUDGET REQUEST FOR FEDERAL MARITIME TRANSPORTATION PROGRAMS, AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE OCEAN SHIPPING REFORM ACT OF 202267 pages | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | Mar 23, 2023 |
| S. Hrg. 118-566 | DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024461 pages | Appropriations Committee | Mar 22, 2023–May 10, 2023 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 4016 | Help Hoover Dam Act | Identical bill | Nov 21, 2024 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Boulder Canyon Project Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to expend amounts in the Colorado River Dam fund, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Help Hoover Dam Act
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Help Hoover Dam Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Water Resources Development.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 10, 2024Reported in House
- Mar 21, 2024Introduced 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.
