US Congress House Bill 1830 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 27-0)
Status: Introduced on April 16 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-05-07 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Water Rights Protection Act Prohibits the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture from: conditioning or withholding the issuance, renewal, amendment, or extension of any permit, approval, license, lease, allotment, easement, right-of-way, or other land use or occupancy agreement (permit) on the limitation or encumbrance of any water right or the transfer of any water right to the United States or any other designee, or any other impairment of any water right under state law by federal or state action; requiring any water user (including a federally recognized Indian tribe) to apply for or acquire a water right in the name of the United States under state law as a condition of such a permit; asserting jurisdiction over groundwater withdrawals or impacts on groundwater resources, unless consistent with state groundwater resource laws, regulations, and policies; or infringing on the rights and obligations of a state in evaluating, allocating, and adjudicating state waters originating on or under, or flowing from, land owned or managed by the federal government.

Water Rights Protection Act

Rep. Scott Tipton [R-CO]	Rep. Mark Amodei [R-NV]	Rep. Ken Buck [R-CO]	Rep. Jason Chaffetz [R-UT]
Rep. Mike Coffman [R-CO]	Rep. Paul Gosar [R-AZ]	Rep. Mike Kelly [R-PA]	Rep. Raul Labrador [R-ID]
Rep. Doug LaMalfa [R-CA]	Rep. Mia Love [R-UT]	Rep. Doug Lamborn [R-CO]	Sen. Cynthia Lummis [R-WY]
Rep. Tom McClintock [R-CA]	Rep. Stevan Pearce [R-NM]	Rep. Tom Reed [R-NY]	Rep. Reid Ribble [R-WI]
Rep. Michael Simpson [R-ID]	Rep. Lamar Smith [R-TX]	Rep. Chris Stewart [R-UT]	Rep. Glenn Thompson [R-PA]
Rep. Bruce Westerman [R-AR]	Rep. Ryan Zinke [R-MT]	Rep. Trent Franks [R-AZ]	Rep. Dan Newhouse [R-WA]
Rep. Brian Babin [R-TX]	Rep. Cresent Hardy [R-NV]	Rep. David Schweikert [R-AZ]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-05-07	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
2015-05-05	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
2015-04-16	House	Referred to House Agriculture
2015-04-16	House	Referred to House Natural Resources
2015-04-16	House	Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2015-04-16	House	Introduced in House

SB982 (Same As) 2015-06-18 - Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held.
HB2898 (Related) 2015-10-08 - Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1830/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr1830/BILLS-114hr1830ih.pdf