Bill Details
S.316 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-01-29 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Introduced Date
2025-01-29
Policy Area
Environmental Protection
Committees
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Sponsors
Cosponsors
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This bill would require the Secretary of the Interior to bring back a 2017 federal rule that removed the grizzly bear population in the Greater Yellowstone area from the endangered and threatened species list. In simple terms, it would push the federal government to again treat those bears as no longer listed under the Endangered Species Act, which would shift more management power to state officials. The bill also says this action must happen quickly and cannot be challenged in court.
- The Interior Secretary would have to reissue the 2017 rule within 180 days after the bill becomes law.
- The rule would apply to the grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, not grizzly bears everywhere.
- The bill says the rule must be issued even if other laws would normally affect that decision.
- The reissued rule, and the section of the bill requiring it, would not be open to judicial review.
Official Summaries
Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2025
This bill requires the Department of the Interior to remove the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem population of grizzly bears from the list of endangered and threatened wildlife.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 316 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 316
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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 29, 2025
Ms. Lummis (for herself, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Sheehy, Mr. Daines, Mr.
Risch, and Mr. Crapo) introduced the following bill; which was read
twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works
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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 of
2025''.
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
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.
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