Beaches can hire local lifeguards when staff runs short.
H.R. 5063 — Safe Beaches, Safe Swimmers Act · Filed by Jennifer Kiggans (R-VA) · Introduced Aug 29, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill lets the Interior Secretary hire lifeguards from local groups. These lifeguards work at beaches run by the U.S. The U.S. pays local groups for all costs. This keeps beaches safe even when the U.S. does not have enough lifeguards.
Who it affects
People who swim at U.S. beaches get lifeguards and rescue help. Local groups and their lifeguards get paid work. Beaches stay open instead of closing.
One thing to notice
The bill does not set rules for how many lifeguards must work or how fast they must help.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Aug 29, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Aug 29, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Natural Resources and Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources”
- Dec 2, 2025 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Hearings Held”
- Jul 22, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jul 22, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Unanimous Consent”
- 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. Westerman 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 1 reports from Dec 2025 to Dec 2025.
Those reports show $139,430 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 46 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Jennifer Kiggans, who sponsored the bill, received $1,290,589 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- National Parks Conservation Association — $139,430 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Interior Secretary — The head of the U.S. Department of the Interior, which manages federal lands and waters.
- 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.
- 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 (2,010 characters) on Aug 9, 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 Dec 2025. 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 Jan 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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