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US Congress · H.R. 1676 · Passed the House

Make SWAPs Efficient Act of 2025

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Introduced 2025-02-27
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What it does

Make SWAPs Efficient Act of 2025 or the Make State Wildlife Action Plans Efficient Act of 2025 This bill modifies the State Wildlife Grant Program (SWGP) to establish a deadline for the Department of the Interior to approve state wildlife conservation and restoration programs. Under the SWGP, Interior provides funding to state wildlife agencies to implement their comprehensive plans (commonly known as state wildlife action plans or SWAPs) for state wildlife conservation and restoration programs. The bill directs Interior to approve a state wildlife conservation and restoration program within 1
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1Short title

This section would let the Act be called the Make SWAPs Efficient Act of 2025 or the Make State Wildlife Action Plans Efficient Act of 2025.

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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Make SWAPs Efficient Act of 2025 or the Make State Wildlife Action Plans Efficient Act of 2025 .

2Timing of approval of wildlife conservation and restoration program

This section would amend section 4(e)(3) of the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 669c(e)(3)), which covers the Secretary of the Interior's review of a State's comprehensive wildlife conservation and restoration plan. The existing rule on approving the State's program would be labeled subparagraph (A), and it would gain a deadline: the Secretary would have to approve the State's wildlife conservation and restoration program, and set aside the funding amounts tied to that approval, not later than 180 days after the date the State submitted its comprehensive plan. The words "as redesignated" would be removed from that provision. A new subparagraph (B) would be added: if the Secretary finds that a State's comprehensive plan complies with paragraph (1) but does not approve the State's program under subparagraph (A) within the 180-day period, the State's program would be automatically deemed approved as of the date that 180-day period ends, and the Secretary would still have to set aside the funding amounts described in subparagraph (A).

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2. Timing of approval of wildlife conservation and restoration program Section 4(e)(3) of the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act ( 16 U.S.C. 669c(e)(3) ) is amended— (1) by inserting , not later than 180 days after the date on which the State submitted the comprehensive plan, after , the Secretary ; (2) by striking , as redesignated ; (3) by striking If the Secretary and inserting (A) If the Secretary ; and (4) by adding at the end the following: (B) If the Secretary finds under subparagraph (A) that a comprehensive plan submitted by a State complies with paragraph (1) and does not approve the wildlife conservation and restoration program of the State under subparagraph (A) within the 180-day period described in that subparagraph, the wildlife conservation and restoration program of the State shall be deemed to be approved by the Secretary under that subparagraph as of the date on which the 180-day period ends and the Secretary shall set aside amounts as described in that subparagraph. .

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Where it is

Introduced · 2025-02-27

In the House.

Committee hearing · 2025-06-24
Passed the House · 2025-12-09
Senate floor vote · next · the next step

Official documents

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The numbers

29%
of bills that passed one chamber became law in the 118th Congress, 2023 to 2024 (n=939)
10
sponsors, out of 218 needed to pass
Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record. Last action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (2025-12-10).