Study finds new warm homes for manatees losing industrial sites
H.R. 9590 — SAFE for Manatees Act · Filed by Daniel Webster (R-FL) · 6 cosponsors · Introduced Jul 2, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The Interior Department must study where manatees can live. Industrial sites in Florida are shutting down. The study will look for natural warm-water places. It will check if people can build artificial warm-water homes. The department must finish and report in 180 days.
Who it affects
Manatees need warm water to survive. When industrial sites close, manatees lose the warm water those sites gave them. This bill helps manatees find new warm-water homes.
One thing to notice
The study must happen fast—in 180 days. That is a short time to find and test new homes for manatees.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
6 cosponsors: 4 Republicans, 2 Democrats.
- Jul 2, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 2, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources”
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 Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $0 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.
Daniel Webster, who sponsored the bill, received $199,000 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Save the Manatee Club — $0 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- warm-water homes — Safe places with warm water where manatees can survive
- artificial — Made by people, not found in nature
- Interior Department — The government agency in charge of protecting nature and wildlife
- 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 (1,665 characters) on Aug 12, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 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 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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