Congress extends nutria 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 a law that pays for nutria removal. Nutria are large rodents that damage wetlands, crops, and levees. The law was set to end in 2025. Now it will run until 2030. The bill also fixes some language in the old law.
Who it affects
States with nutria problems benefit from federal money and coordination for removal. Farmers and landowners gain protection for crops and land.
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 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 2 reports from Dec 2025 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.
Josh Harder, who sponsored the bill, received $522,676 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- California Agricultural Commissioners and Sealers Association — $40,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- nutria — A large rodent from South America that damages wetlands, crops, and structures.
- coordination — Working together across states and agencies to plan and carry out removal efforts.
- 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 (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 14,522 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 2026-09-22.
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