HR 4255
Cleared committee
Removes the Mexican wolf from the federal lists of threatened and endangered species and cancels two Fish and Wildlife Service rules that had protected it.
Official title: Enhancing Safety for Animals Act of 2025
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House
Introduced
30-JUN-2025
Referred
30-JUN-2025
Approved by committee
22-JAN-2026
- Removes the Mexican wolf from the threatened and endangered species lists under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.
- Declares two Fish and Wildlife Service rules on the Mexican wolf, from 2015 and 2022, to have no force or effect.
- Bars the Interior Department from considering the wolf's status in Mexico when writing recovery plans or deciding whether to relist the wolf after enactment.
- Includes congressional findings that Mexican wolves kill livestock and that the agency's evidence standard for confirming livestock kills is too strict.
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12 Republicans