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To deposit portions of revenue generated from public lands into the Social Security Trust Fund.
Summary
HR 34 would direct 10 percent of annual revenue collected by the Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture from public lands activities to the Social Security Trust Fund. Public lands revenue comes from activities such as mineral leases, timber sales, and grazing permits on federal lands managed by these departments. The bill specifies that it does not authorize raising prices on these activities and does not reduce payments to states, tribes, territories, or local governments from public lands revenue. The deposit to Social Security would occur each fiscal year from the preceding year's collected revenue.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-9] (R-AZ)
16 cosponsors
- Rep. Babin, Brian [R-TX-36] (R-TX)
- Rep. Begich, Nicholas J. [R-AK-At Large] (R-AK)
- Rep. Boebert, Lauren [R-CO-4] (R-CO)
- Rep. Crane, Elijah [R-AZ-2] (R-AZ)
- Rep. Davidson, Warren [R-OH-8] (R-OH)
- Rep. Donalds, Byron [R-FL-19] (R-FL)
- Rep. Fulcher, Russ [R-ID-1] (R-ID)
- Rep. Hamadeh, Abraham [R-AZ-8] (R-AZ)
- Rep. Harris, Andy [R-MD-1] (R-MD)
- Rep. Nehls, Troy E. [R-TX-22] (R-TX)
- Rep. Norman, Ralph [R-SC-5] (R-SC)
- Rep. Owens, Burgess [R-UT-4] (R-UT)
- Rep. Perry, Scott [R-PA-10] (R-PA)
- Rep. Stutzman, Marlin A. [R-IN-3] (R-IN)
- Rep. Van Orden, Derrick [R-WI-3] (R-WI)
- Rep. Wied, Tony [R-WI-8] (R-WI)
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Actions (5)
- Feb 10, 2026 Subcommittee Hearings Held · house
- Feb 3, 2026 Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands. · house
- Jan 31, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture. · house
- Jan 3, 2025 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. · house
- Jan 3, 2025 Introduced in House
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Full text
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 3, 2025
Mr. Gosar introduced the following bill; which was 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
A BILL
To deposit portions of revenue generated from public lands into the Social Security Trust Fund.
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 “Land And Social Security Optimization Act” or “LASSO Act”.
SEC. 2. PUBLIC LAND REVENUE FOR SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUND.
(a) In General.—Notwithstanding any other law, each fiscal year, 10 percent of amounts collected by the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture from the revenue generated by covered public lands during the preceding fiscal year shall be deposited into the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Trust Fund established under section 201(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401(a)).
(b) Rules of Construction.—Nothing in this Act shall be construed as—
(1) authorizing the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture to raise the price of any of the activities through which revenue is generated on covered public lands; or
(2) reducing amounts made available to States, Indian Tribes, territories, or local governments from revenue generated by covered public lands.
(c) Covered Public Lands Defined.—In this Act, the term “covered public lands” means any land under the administrative jurisdiction—
(1) of the Department of the Interior, including submerged lands on the Outer Continental Shelf (as such term is defined in section 2 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331); or
(2) the Forest Service. <all>
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