Bill Details
S.220 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-01-23 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Introduced Date
2025-01-23
Policy Area
Public Lands and Natural Resources
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This bill would change current law so that only Congress, not the President, could create or expand a national monument. In simple terms, it would take away the President’s power under the Antiquities Act to act on his or her own and require a direct vote from Congress before a national monument could be established or extended.
- It would rewrite the part of federal law that governs national monuments.
- Any new national monument, or any expansion of an existing one, would need express approval from Congress.
- The bill is titled the “Ending Presidential Overreach on Public Lands Act.”
Official Summaries
Ending Presidential Overreach on Public Lands Act
This bill removes the president's authority to designate or expand national monuments and gives that authority to Congress instead.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 220 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 220
To reserve to Congress the authority to establish or extend a national
monument.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 23, 2025
Mr. Lee (for himself and Mr. Curtis) introduced the following bill;
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources
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A BILL
To reserve to Congress the authority to establish or extend a national
monument.
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 ``Ending Presidential Overreach on
Public Lands Act''.
SEC. 2. NATIONAL MONUMENTS.
Section 320301 of title 54, United States Code (commonly referred
to as the ``Antiquities Act''), is amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 320301. National monuments
``The establishment or extension of a national monument may be
undertaken only by express authorization of Congress.''.
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