Congress quietly extends invasive rodent control program five more years
H.R. 776 — Nutria Eradication and Control Reauthorization Act of 2025 · Filed by Josh Harder (D-CA) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Jan 28, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill extends the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 by five years, moving its authorization deadline from 2025 to 2030. It also makes a technical correction to the statute's language. The bill allows the federal government to continue funding and coordinating nutria (a destructive invasive rodent) removal efforts across affected states.
Why we flagged it
This is a straightforward extension of an existing invasive-species control program. It contains no policy innovation, no new funding mechanism, and no structural change — only a deadline adjustment and a technical correction to statutory language.
Who it affects
Nutria cause significant ecological and agricultural damage (wetland destruction, crop loss, levee damage). Reauthorizing the eradication program maintains federal coordination and funding for invasive-species control that protects public lands, agricultural productivity, and infrastructure in affected states. The extension is routine and uncontroversial.
Named in the bill
Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003, U.S. Department of Interior (implied Secretary), affected coastal and wetland states
Where it stands
3 cosponsors: 2 Democrats, 1 Republicans.
- Jan 28, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jan 28, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Natural Resources and Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources”
- Feb 4, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection”
- Feb 4, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 2 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $40,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 4 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Josh Harder, the sponsor, reported $523,676 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- California Agricultural Commissioners and Sealers Association — $40,000 on 2 filings
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (525 characters) on Jul 2, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 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 2026-10-20.
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