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H.R. 2293 · 119th Congress

Cormorant Relief Act of 2025

Introduced Mar 24, 2025Policy area: Animals

Read the textOn Congress.gov

Status: Passed House

  1. Introduced
  2. Committee
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. To President
  6. Law

Latest action

: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Summary

Cormorant Relief Act of 2025

This bill requires the Department of the Interior to reissue the depredation order for double-crested cormorants at aquaculture facilities in certain states. (The previous order was vacated in 2016 by court order.)

Depredation orders allow for the taking (i.e., capturing, killing, dispersing, or transport of the carcass) of a specified species without a permit, generally to reduce damage caused by the species or to protect interests like health or property. Reissuing this order authorizes landowners, operators, tenants, and employees of entities engaged in aquaculture to take double-crested cormorants that are causing or threatening harm at aquaculture facilities and state and federal fish hatcheries.

Interior must reissue the depredation order with updates, including an expansion of (1) the number of states covered by the order, and (2) the entities to whom the order applies (i.e., private lake and pond managers who are licensed by the state).

Under the bill, Interior must renew the depredation order every five years.

Summary by the Congressional Research Service.

Actions

  1. Senate

    Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

  2. House

    Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

  3. House

    On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5076-5077)

  4. House

    DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2293.

  5. House

    Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5076-5077)

  6. House

    Mr. Hurd (CO) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

  7. House

    Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 241.

  8. House

    Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-285.

  9. House

    Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Unanimous Consent.

  10. House

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  11. House

    Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Discharged

  12. House

    Subcommittee Hearings Held

Show 3 earlier actions
  1. House

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries.

  2. House

    Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

  3. Introduced in House