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LASSO Act

To deposit portions of revenue generated from public lands into the Social Security Trust Fund.

Introduced Jan 3, 2025

Latest action (Feb 10, 2026) Subcommittee Hearings Held

Referred to
Natural Resources Committee Agriculture Committee
Policy area
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Issues
Economy & Taxes
Legislative subjects (2)
Government trust fundsSocial security and elderly assistance

Summary
  • Requires the Departments of Interior and Agriculture to deposit 10 percent of annual revenue collected from public lands activities into the Social Security Trust Fund each fiscal year.
  • Specifies that this redirection does not authorize raising prices of activities on public lands or reduce payments to States, Indian Tribes, territories, or local governments from public land revenue.
  • Applies to all lands under the administrative jurisdiction of the Department of Interior, including submerged lands on the Outer Continental Shelf, and lands under the Forest Service.

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Sponsor (1)
16 cosponsors

Actions (5)
  1. Feb 10, 2026 Subcommittee Hearings Held · house
  2. Feb 3, 2026 Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands. · house
  3. Jan 31, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture. · house
  4. 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
  5. Jan 3, 2025 Introduced in House

More bills on these subjects (8)

Other bills that carry the most legislative subjects in common with this one (topical discovery — distinct from the procedural related bills above).

  • SCONRES 22 — A concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2026 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2027 through 2035. (shares 2 subjects)
  • HR 5304 — Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 2 subjects)
  • HR 1700 — Social Security Expansion Act (shares 2 subjects)
  • S 770 — Social Security Expansion Act (shares 2 subjects)
  • SCONRES 7 — An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034. (shares 2 subjects)
  • HR 1221 — Social Security and Medicare Lock-Box Act (shares 2 subjects)
  • HR 963 — Protecting Social Security Act (shares 2 subjects)
  • HR 191 — Inflation Reduction Act of 2025 (shares 2 subjects)

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jan 3, 2025

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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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