Cormorant Relief Act of 2025
- Last Action
- 12/10/2025
Actions
- 2025-12-10Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
- 2025-12-09Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2025-12-09On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5076-5077)
- 2025-12-09Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5076-5077)
- 2025-12-09DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2293.
- 2025-12-09Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5076-5077)
- 2025-12-09Mr. Hurd (CO) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- 2025-09-15Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 241.
- 2025-09-15Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-285.
- 2025-09-15Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-285.
- 2025-07-15Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Unanimous Consent.
- 2025-07-15Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- 2025-07-15Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Discharged
- 2025-04-08Subcommittee Hearings Held
- 2025-04-01Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries.
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CRS Summary
As of 2025-09-15 (07)
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.
Cosponsors (3)
- Michael Guest (R-MS)
- Bennie Thompson (D-MS)
- Trent Kelly (R-MS)
Subjects
- Alabama
- Aquaculture
- Arkansas
- Birds
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Florida
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kentucky
- Lakes and rivers
- Louisiana
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
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