Texas wildlife refuge renamed to honor a murdered child
S. 1596 — Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge Act · Filed by John Cornyn (R-TX) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced May 5, 2025 · Signed
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What it does
This bill renames a wildlife refuge in Texas. The refuge is now called Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge. It was called Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge before. The new name honors Jocelyn Nungaray. She was 12 years old and was killed in Houston in June 2024. All federal records will use the new name.
Who it affects
The bill affects the wildlife refuge in Texas. It does not change how the refuge works or cost anyone money.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- May 5, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- May 5, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works”
- May 13, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works discharged by Unanimous Consent.”
- May 13, 2025 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote. (text: CR S2882)”
- Jul 14, 2025 — Passed both chambers · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 372 - 0…”
- Jul 14, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill”
- Jul 17, 2025 — Sent to president · Congress.gov: “Presented to President”
- Jul 24, 2025 — Signed into law · Congress.gov: “Became Public Law No: 119-30”
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 $16,950,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 254 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
John Cornyn, who sponsored the bill, received $2,074,650 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. — $16,950,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- National Wildlife Refuge — A protected area of land where animals and plants are kept safe.
- 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 (1,246 characters) on May 21, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,342 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 2026-09-18.
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