HR 2293
Passed a chamber
Requires the Interior Department to reissue a federal rule that lets states and licensed lake and pond managers kill double-crested cormorants at fish farms, and removes the rule's 2014 expiration date.
Official title: Cormorant Relief Act of 2025
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
24-MAR-2025
Referred
24-MAR-2025
Approved by committee
15-JUL-2025
Reported
15-SEP-2025
On the calendar
15-SEP-2025
Passed
09-DEC-2025
Senate
Received
10-DEC-2025
- Requires the Secretary of the Interior to reissue the depredation order for double-crested cormorants at aquaculture facilities found in 50 CFR 21.47 as of January 1, 2016.
- Applies the order to 12 listed states, any other state or territory the Secretary chooses, and licensed lake and pond managers.
- Removes the June 30, 2014 expiration date, updates terminology, simplifies provisions on compliance with other federal law, and modernizes recordkeeping.
- Requires renewal at least once every 5 years and states that nothing in the Act waives duties under the National Environmental Policy Act or the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Reported to House" (15-SEP-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 09-DEC-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Natural Resources Committee (House)
- Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee
- Environment and Public Works Committee (Senate)
Animals
■ 2 R■ 1 D
2 Republicans
1 Democrat