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This bill would require the Secretary of the Interior to put back into effect a 2017 rule that removed the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bear population from the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife. In simple terms, it would move management of these grizzly bears away from federal endangered species protections and back to state-level control. The bill says this must be done within 180 days after it becomes law, and it also says the action cannot be challenged in court.
- It applies only to the grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
- It directs the Interior Secretary to reissue the 2017 federal rule that took those bears off the endangered and threatened list.
- The reissued rule must be done within 180 days after the bill becomes law.
- The bill says the reissued rule, and this section of the law, cannot be reviewed by a court.
Official Summaries
Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2025
This bill requires the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reissue the final rule titled Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Population of Grizzly Bears From the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and published on June 30, 2017.
In addition, the bill exempts the rule from judicial review.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 281 Reported in House (RH)]
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Union Calendar No. 281
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 281
[Report No. 119-328]
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue a final rule
relating to removing the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem population of
grizzly bears from the Federal list of endangered and threatened
wildlife, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 9, 2025
Ms. Hageman (for herself, Mr. Zinke, Mr. Fulcher, Mr. Stauber, and Mr.
Downing) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Natural Resources
October 3, 2025
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed
in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on January
9, 2025]
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A BILL
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue a final rule
relating to removing the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem population of
grizzly bears from the Federal list of endangered and threatened
wildlife, and for other purposes.
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 ``Grizzly Bear State Management Act''.
SEC. 2. REISSUANCE OF FINAL RULE RELATING TO GREATER YELLOWSTONE
ECOSYSTEM POPULATION OF GRIZZLY BEARS.
(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall reissue the
final rule entitled ``Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants;
Removing the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Population of Grizzly Bears
From the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife'' (82 Fed.
Reg. 30502 (June 30, 2017)) without regard to any other provision of
law that applies to the issuance of that final rule.
(b) No Judicial Review.--The reissuance of the final rule described
in subsection (a) (including this section) shall not be subject to
judicial review.
Union Calendar No. 281
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 281
[Report No. 119-328]
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue a final rule
relating to removing the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem population of
grizzly bears from the Federal list of endangered and threatened
wildlife, and for other purposes.
_______________________________________________________________________
October 3, 2025
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed