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Southern California Coast and Ocean Protection Act
To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit oil and gas leasing in the Southern California Planning Area, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill would amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing leases or authorizations for oil and gas exploration, development, or production in the Southern California Planning Area. The prohibition would apply to all oil and gas activities in federal waters off the Southern California coast as defined in the federal government's 2024-2029 leasing program. The bill would prevent new oil and gas leasing in this planning area.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Levin, Mike [D-CA-49] (D-CA)
23 cosponsors
- Rep. Barragán, Nanette Diaz [D-CA-44] (D-CA)
- Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26] (D-CA)
- Rep. Carbajal, Salud O. [D-CA-24] (D-CA)
- Rep. Castor, Kathy [D-FL-14] (D-FL)
- Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-28] (D-CA)
- Rep. Cisneros, Gilbert Ray [D-CA-31] (D-CA)
- Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11] (D-VA)
- Rep. Friedman, Laura [D-CA-30] (D-CA)
- Rep. Garcia, Robert [D-CA-42] (D-CA)
- Rep. Jacobs, Sara [D-CA-51] (D-CA)
- Rep. Khanna, Ro [D-CA-17] (D-CA)
- Rep. Liccardo, Sam T. [D-CA-16] (D-CA)
- Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-36] (D-CA)
- Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-18] (D-CA)
- Rep. Min, Dave [D-CA-47] (D-CA)
- Rep. Mullin, Kevin [D-CA-15] (D-CA)
- Rep. Panetta, Jimmy [D-CA-19] (D-CA)
- Rep. Peters, Scott H. [D-CA-50] (D-CA)
- Rep. Rivas, Luz M. [D-CA-29] (D-CA)
- Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-32] (D-CA)
- Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-39] (D-CA)
- Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-4] (D-CA)
- Rep. Tran, Derek [D-CA-45] (D-CA)
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Mike Levin’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $64,547
- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SAN DIEGO $18,365
- GOOGLE $14,450
- CHEMBRIDGE CORP $13,200
- PIMCO $13,200
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Mike Levin → · Outside spending →
Actions (2)
- Apr 10, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. · house
- Apr 10, 2025 Introduced in House
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Text versions (1)
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Full text
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 10, 2025
Mr. Levin (for himself, Mr. Khanna, Ms. Jacobs, Mr. Peters, Mr. Min, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Carbajal, Ms. Brownley, Ms. Barragan, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Mullin, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. Connolly, and Ms. Castor of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources
A BILL
To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit oil and gas leasing in the Southern California Planning Area, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Southern California Coast and Ocean Protection Act”.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF OIL AND GAS LEASING IN THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PLANNING AREA.
Section 8 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1337) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(q) Prohibition of Oil and Gas Leasing in the Southern California Planning Area.—Notwithstanding any other provision of this section or any other law, the Secretary may not issue a lease or any other authorization for the exploration, development, or production of oil or natural gas in the Southern California Planning Area, as such planning area is described in the document entitled ‘2024-2029 National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Final Program’, dated September 2023.”. <all>
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