Official Summaries

Wetlands Conservation and Access Improvement Act of 2025

This act extends until FY2033 a requirement for the interest earned on certain funds held in the Federal Aid to Wildlife Restoration Fund to be distributed to states for carrying out certain wildlife conservation and restoration programs. Specifically, the act extends the period in which the interest earned on revenue generated from excise taxes on certain firearms, ammunition, and archery equipment must be used for wildlife conservation and restoration programs established under the North American Wetlands Conservation Act. This requirement was set to expire at the beginning of FY2026. In the absence of this requirement, this funding would be distributed to states, according to a formula, for (1) wildlife restoration, (2) hunter education and safety, (3) multistate conservation grants, and (4) administrative costs.

Wetlands Conservation and Access Improvement Act of 2025

This act extends until FY2033 a requirement for the interest earned on certain funds held in the Federal Aid to Wildlife Restoration Fund to be distributed to states for carrying out certain wildlife conservation and restoration programs. Specifically, the act extends the period in which the interest earned on revenue generated from excise taxes on certain firearms, ammunition, and archery equipment must be used for wildlife conservation and restoration programs established under the North American Wetlands Conservation Act. This requirement was set to expire at the beginning of FY2026. In the absence of this requirement, this funding would be distributed to states, according to a formula, for (1) wildlife restoration, (2) hunter education and safety, (3) multistate conservation grants, and (4) administrative costs.

Current Full Text

[119th Congress Public Law 40]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



[[Page 139 STAT. 662]]

Public Law 119-40
119th Congress

                                 An Act


 
To amend the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to provide that 
interest on obligations held in the Federal aid to wildlife restoration 
fund shall become available for apportionment at the beginning of fiscal 
           year 2033. <<NOTE: Nov. 25, 2025 -  [H.R. 2316]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Wetlands 
Conservation and Access Improvement Act of 2025.>> 
SECTION 1. <<NOTE: 16 USC 669 note.>> SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Wetlands Conservation and Access 
Improvement Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. AVAILABILITY OF INTEREST ON OBLIGATIONS HELD IN FEDERAL 
                    AID TO WILDLIFE RESTORATION FUND.

    Section 3(b)(2)(C) of the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act 
(16 U.S.C. 669b(b)(2)(C)) is amended by striking ``2026'' and inserting 
``2033''.

    Approved November 25, 2025.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 2316:
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 119-191 (Comm. on Natural Resources).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 171 (2025):
            July 14, considered and passed House.
            Oct. 23, considered and passed Senate.

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