MAPWaters Act
- Last Action
- 12/18/2024
Actions
- 2024-12-18Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 728.
- 2024-12-17Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2024-12-17On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7266-7267)
- 2024-12-17Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7266-7267)
- 2024-12-17DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6127.
- 2024-12-17Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7266-7268)
- 2024-12-17Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- 2024-12-10Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 687.
- 2024-12-10Committee on Agriculture discharged.
- 2024-12-10Committee on Agriculture discharged.
- 2024-12-10Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 118-842, Part I.
- 2024-12-10Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 118-842, Part I.
- 2024-11-20Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Unanimous Consent.
- 2024-11-20Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- 2024-11-20Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries Discharged
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CRS Summary
As of 2023-11-01 (00)
Modernizing Access to Our Public Waters Act or the MAPWaters Act
This bill directs the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior to standardize and publish data relating to public outdoor recreational use of federal waterways.
Specifically, the Forest Service and Interior must jointly develop and adopt interagency standards for data collection and dissemination of geospatial data relating to public outdoor recreational use of federal waterways and federal fishing restrictions. The standards must ensure compatibility and interoperability among applicable federal databases with respect to collection and dissemination of such data.
The Forest Service and Interior must also (1) digitize and make publicly available online certain geographic information system data about federal waterway restrictions and federal fishing restrictions, (2) update the information at least twice per year, and (3) develop a process to allow members of the public to submit questions or comments regarding the data.
Cosponsors (7)
- Russ Fulcher (R-ID)
- Jimmy Panetta (D-CA)
- Debbie Dingell (D-MI)
- Jim Costa (D-CA)
- Susie Lee (D-NV)
- Derek Kilmer (D-WA)
- Marie Perez (D-WA)
Subjects
- Congressional oversight
- Geography and mapping
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Hunting and fishing
- Land use and conservation
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Marine and inland water transportation
- Navigation, waterways, harbors
- Outdoor recreation
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