Bills · 119th Congress · Animals

Nutria Eradication and Control Reauthorization Act of 2025

Where it stands

  1. Introduced1/28/25
  2. Passed HousePassed 2/4/25
  3. Senate
  4. President
  5. Law

Passed the House 361–56 on February 4, 2025 (Roll Call 29 →). Received in the Senate on February 5, 2025. No Senate action since.

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Roll calls on this bill

Votes on passage
HouseOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass · 2/4/25Suspension of the rulesA fast-track House procedure, usually for measures expected to have broad support. Debate is limited to 40 minutes, no amendments can be offered, and it needs a two-thirds vote of members voting — not a simple majority. A yes vote passes the bill.Rules of the House, Rule XV, clause 1 ↗
Passed
  • Democratic205 Yea · 0 Nay · 10 Not voting
  • Republican156 Yea · 56 Nay · 6 Not voting
  • Independent / Other0 Yea · 0 Nay · 0 Not voting
Official summary (CRS)

Nutria Eradication and Control Reauthorization Act of 2025

This bill reauthorizes through FY2030 the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003, which allows the Department of the Interior to provide financial assistance to states for (1) eradicating or controlling nutria, and (2) restoring marshland damaged by nutria. Nutria are invasive, semi-aquatic rodents.

Full text on congress.gov ↗
Sponsor
Rep. Josh Harder ( Democrat · CA-9)
Cosponsors
3
Introduced
1/28/25
Policy area
Animals

What happens next

The Senate must pass the same text, then it goes to the President.

If it isn't enacted by Jan 3, 2027, it expires when the 119th Congress ends.

All actions (11)
  1. 1/28/25Introduced in House
  2. 1/28/25Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
  3. 2/4/25Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
  4. 2/4/25Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H449-450)
  5. 2/4/25DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 776.
  6. 2/4/25At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
  7. 2/4/25Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H451-452)
  8. 2/4/25Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 361 - 56 (Roll no. 29). (text: CR H449)
  9. 2/4/25On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 361 - 56 (Roll no. 29). (text: CR H449)
  10. 2/4/25Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  11. 2/5/25Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.