Congress funds ocean and coast monitoring system for five more years
H.R. 2294 — To reauthorize the Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act of 2009. · Filed by Mike Ezell (R-MS) · 25 cosponsors · Introduced Mar 24, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill keeps money flowing to a system that watches ocean and coastal conditions. The system gets $47.5 million each year through 2030. The bill renames the group that runs it from Council to Committee. It adds ocean weather monitoring to what the system measures. It requires regions to share data with each other.
Who it affects
Coastal communities benefit from better storm warnings and ocean safety information. Federal agencies that run the system keep their funding.
One thing to notice
The bill expands what the system measures beyond traditional coastal watching.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
25 cosponsors: 19 Democrats, 6 Republicans.
- Mar 24, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Mar 24, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and House Committee on Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and…”
- May 20, 2025 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Hearings Held”
- Jul 23, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jul 23, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent”
- Mar 16, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2513)”
- Mar 16, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Wittman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
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 2 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $40,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 4 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Mike Ezell, who sponsored the bill, received $478,431 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Ioos Association — $40,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
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- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,512 characters) on Jul 10, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,358 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 23, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-19.
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