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H.R. 900 · 119th Congress

Sinkhole Mapping Act of 2025

Introduced Jan 31, 2025Policy area: Emergency Management

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

: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.

Summary

Sinkhole Mapping Act of 2025

  • This bill directs the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to establish a program to
  • study the short-term and long-term mechanisms that cause sinkholes, including extreme storm events, prolonged droughts causing shifts in water management practices, aquifer depletion, and other major changes in water use; and
  • develop maps, using three-dimensional elevation data, that depict zones that are at greater risk of forming sinkholes.

The USGS must establish a public website that displays such maps and other relevant information critical for use by community planners and emergency managers.

Summary by the Congressional Research Service.

Actions

  1. Senate

    Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.

  2. Senate

    Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

  3. House

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

  4. House

    On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3223)

  5. Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.

  6. House

    DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 900.

  7. House

    Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3223-3224)

  8. House

    Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

  9. House

    Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 147.

  10. House

    Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-182.

  11. House

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

  12. House

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

Show 2 earlier actions
  1. House

    Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

  2. Introduced in House