Gateway Arch National Park can host private events with no lawsuits allowed.
S. 2767 — Gateway Partnership Act · Filed by Eric Schmitt (R-MO) · 2 cosponsors · Introduced Sep 11, 2025 · Reported out
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What it does
The bill lets the Secretary of the Interior sign a deal with the Gateway Arch Park Foundation. The Foundation can hold private events in park buildings. These buildings include the Visitor Center and Old Courthouse. The Foundation pays fees to cover upkeep and costs. The state cannot be sued if someone gets hurt at these private events. Public access to the park must stay open.
Who it affects
Visitors to Gateway Arch National Park are affected. The Gateway Arch Park Foundation gains the right to host private events. People hurt at private events lose the right to sue the state.
One thing to notice
The bill stops people from suing the state for harm at private events in park buildings. This is true even if the state did not keep buildings in good shape.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
2 cosponsors: 1 Democrats, 1 Republicans.
- Sep 11, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Sep 11, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources”
- Jul 21, 2026 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held”
- Jul 29, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a…”
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.
Eric Schmitt, who sponsored the bill, received $269,099 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
- Secretary of the Interior — The cabinet official who runs the Department of the Interior and oversees national parks.
- Gateway Arch Park Foundation — A nonprofit group that works with Gateway Arch National Park.
- private events — Gatherings held for specific groups or organizations, not open to the public.
- 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 (2,857 characters) on Aug 20, 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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