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Ending Presidential Overreach on Public Lands Act

To reserve to Congress the authority to establish or extend a national monument.

Introduced Jan 16, 2025

Latest action (Jan 16, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Referred to
Natural Resources Committee
Policy area
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Legislative subjects (2)
Monuments and memorialsPresidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary

The Ending Presidential Overreach on Public Lands Act amends the Antiquities Act to change the authority for establishing national monuments. Currently, the President has the authority to establish national monuments unilaterally. The bill would require that the establishment or extension of a national monument may only be undertaken by express authorization of Congress. This change would transfer the decision-making power for creating national monuments from the President to Congress.

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Sponsor (1)
15 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Jan 16, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. · house
  2. Jan 16, 2025 Introduced in House

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  • HR 4730 — Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History Act (shares 2 subjects)
  • S 220 — Ending Presidential Overreach on Public Lands Act (shares 2 subjects)
  • HR 2196 — National Emergency Medical Services Memorial Extension Act (shares 1 subject)
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Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 220 — Ending Presidential Overreach on Public Lands Act · Introduced Jan 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 87%
  • HR 4937 — EQUAL Parks Act · Introduced Aug 8, 2025 · Cong. 119 73%
  • HR 718 — Public Lands in Public Hands Act · Introduced Feb 28, 2025 · Cong. 119 71%
  • HR 3604 — Reducing Waste in National Parks Act · Introduced May 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%
  • HR 471 — Fix Our Forests Act · Passed House Mar 6, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 3555 — Protect our Parks Act of 2025 · Introduced May 21, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jan 16, 2025

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Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 16, 2025

Ms. Maloy (for herself, Mr. Amodei of Nevada, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Moore of Utah, Mr. Begich, Mr. Newhouse, Mr. Stauber, Mrs. Fischbach, Mr. Estes, Mr. Owens, Mr. Kennedy of Utah, and Mr. Fong) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

A BILL

To reserve to Congress the authority to establish or extend a national monument.

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 “Ending Presidential Overreach on Public Lands Act”.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL MONUMENTS.

Section 320301 of title 54, United States Code (commonly referred to as the “Antiquities Act”), is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 320301. National monuments “The establishment or extension of a national monument may be undertaken only by express authorization of Congress.”. <all>

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