Bill sells and transfers federal lands in northern Nevada.
H.R. 2317 — Northern Nevada Economic Development and Conservation Act of 2025 · Filed by Mark Amodei (R-NV) · Introduced Mar 25, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill moves federal land in northern Nevada to different owners. Nevada gets 67 acres for a state park. Douglas County gets 7,777 acres. The Washoe Tribe gets 2,423 acres held in trust. About 12,392 acres become wilderness. Private buyers can purchase about 31.5 acres. Land sale money splits three ways. Nevada schools get 5%. Douglas County gets 10%. A special account gets 85%.
Who it affects
Nevada citizens, Douglas County residents, and the Washoe Tribe receive land or money. Incline Village, Carson City, and the Truckee River Flood Management Authority also receive land. Private companies and individuals can buy some federal land. The public has less say in how some land will be used.
One thing to notice
The bill removes federal planning rules that require public comment before selling land. Congress does not approve spending from the special account each year.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Mar 25, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Mar 25, 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…”
- Jul 15, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jul 15, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 12”
- Sep 14, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote”
- Sep 14, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Amodei (NV) 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
6 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 11 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $380,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 6 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 82% of bills with any report.
Mark Amodei, who sponsored the bill, received $174,019 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- State of Nevada — $180,000 in 3 reports
- Nv Energy — $80,000 in 2 reports
- Douglas County Nevada — $40,000 in 2 reports
- Incline Village General Improvement District — $40,000 in 2 reports
- Truckee River Flood Project — $30,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- federal lands — Land owned by the U.S. government, not by states or private people.
- wilderness — Land protected by law to stay wild, with limits on building and development.
- trust — Land held and managed by the federal government for a Native American tribe's benefit.
- federal planning rules — Federal rules that require public input and study before the government sells its land.
- 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 (50,094 characters) on Jul 21, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 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 Dec 2025 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 2026-09-17.
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