Official Summaries

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 180 days after the date on which the state submitted its SWAP if Interior finds that the SWAP complies with the requirements of the SWGP. If Interior misses the deadline, the bill requires (1) the SWAP to be automatically approved, and (2) Interior to set aside amounts under the Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Account for the state.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1676 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1676


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 10, 2025

 Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and 
                              Public Works

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                                 AN ACT


 
To amend the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to require the 
  Secretary of the Interior to approve the wildlife conservation and 
    restoration program of a State within a certain period of time.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 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''.

SEC. 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) Upon submission of a comprehensive plan by a State 
        under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall conditionally 
        authorize the implementation of the wildlife conservation and 
        restoration program of the State and shall set aside amounts as 
        described in subparagraph (A).
            ``(C) The Secretary, in consultation with the States, shall 
        develop a process to ensure sufficient and timely review of 
        comprehensive plans submitted by States under paragraph (1) and 
        final approval of the wildlife conservation and restoration 
        program of such States not later than 180 days after the date 
        on which a State submits such a comprehensive plan.
            ``(D) It is the intent of Congress that the Secretary 
        prioritize the--
                    ``(i) timely review of comprehensive plans 
                submitted by States under paragraph (1); and
                    ``(ii) approval of the wildlife conservation and 
                restoration programs of such States.
            ``(E) Not later than June 1 of the year immediately 
        following the year in which a State submits a comprehensive 
        plan under paragraph (1), if the Secretary does not approve the 
        wildlife conservation and restoration program of the State 
        under subparagraph (A) within the time described in that 
        subparagraph, the Secretary shall submit to the Chair and 
        Ranking Member of the Committee on Natural Resources of the 
        House of Representatives and the Environment and Public Works 
        Committee of the Senate a report regarding the status of such 
        comprehensive plan and including the reason why the wildlife 
        conservation and restoration program was not so approved.''.

            Passed the House of Representatives December 9, 2025.

            Attest:

                                             KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,

                                                                 Clerk.