Five agencies must put waterway rules online in five years.
H.R. 187 — Modernizing Access to our Public Waters Act of 2025 · Filed by Blake Moore (R-UT) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Signed
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What it does
The bill tells five federal agencies to map waterway access. They must show where people can fish, boat, and go. The agencies must put this online in one place. All five agencies must use the same format. The map shows closures, boat ramps, fishing rules, and access points.
Who it affects
People who fish, boat, or recreate on federal water gain free access to rules. The five agencies must create and update the maps. The bill adds no new rules that stop people from using water.
One thing to notice
The bill leaves out irrigation canals and some federal water systems. Rules for those waters will not be on the map.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
3 cosponsors: 2 Democrats, 1 Republicans.
- Jan 3, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jan 3, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Agriculture and House Committee on Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period…”
- Jan 21, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required)…”
- Jan 21, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
- Dec 16, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged by Unanimous Consent”
- Dec 16, 2025 — Passed both chambers · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S8766-8768)”
- Dec 18, 2025 — Sent to president · Congress.gov: “Presented to President”
- Dec 26, 2025 — Signed into law · Congress.gov: “Became Public Law No: 119-62”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $50,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 35 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Blake Moore, who sponsored the bill, received $1,460,500 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership — $50,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- agencies — Government offices that manage land and water for the public.
- closures — Times or places where the government does not let people use water.
- access points — Places where people can enter or use federal water.
- format — The way information is organized and shown on a map.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (8,297 characters) on Jun 3, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,342 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-18.
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