MONARCH Act of 2025
Latest action · Jun 20, 2025 Referred 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.
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.
- IntroducedJun 20, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Monarch Action, Recovery, and Conservation of Habitat Act of 2025 or the MONARCH Act of 2025
This bill provides support for the conservation of western monarch butterflies (the monarch butterfly population that overwinters along the coast of California and breeds across California, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Utah). Specifically, the bill establishes the Western Monarch Butterfly Rescue Fund. The Department of the Interior must use amounts in the fund to provide grants for the conservation of such butterflies and other pollinators within the range of western monarch butterflies.
In addition, Interior must enter into an agreement with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to facilitate updating and implementing the Western Monarch Butterfly Conservation Plan, which was prepared by the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies.
Cosponsors 16
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 20, 2025 to Mar 2, 2026; 9 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Dave Min | Original | Jun 20, 2025 |
| D-MI | Debbie Dingell | Original | Jun 20, 2025 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Jun 20, 2025 |
| D-AZ | Greg Stanton | Original | Jun 20, 2025 |
| D-HI | Jill N. Tokuda | Original | Jun 20, 2025 |
| D-CA | Jim Costa | Original | Jun 20, 2025 |
| D-IL | Raja Krishnamoorthi | Original | Jun 20, 2025 |
| D-CA | Salud O. Carbajal | Original | Jun 20, 2025 |
| D-OR | Suzanne Bonamici | Original | Jun 20, 2025 |
| D-CA | Jared Huffman | Jun 23, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Scott H. Peters | Jul 10, 2025 | |
| D-IL | Mike Quigley | Jul 15, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Ted Lieu | Aug 15, 2025 | |
| D-CT | James A. Himes | Sep 30, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Mike Thompson | Oct 17, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Judy Chu | Mar 2, 2026 |
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 Jun 20, 2025 |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Jun 20, 2025 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 20, 2025Introduced in House
- Jun 20, 2025Referred 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.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 106, June 20, 2025, page H2838.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2128 | MONARCH Act of 2025 | Identical bill | Jun 18, 2025 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To encourage and facilitate efforts by States and other stakeholders to conserve and sustain the western population of monarch butterflies, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- MONARCH Act of 2025
- Monarch Action, Recovery, and Conservation of Habitat Act of 2025
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Animals.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 20, 2025Introduced 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.
