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Grasslands Grazing Act of 2025
To amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to ensure that ranchers who have grazing agreements on national grasslands are treated the same as permittees on other Federal land.
Summary
This bill amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to expand grazing lease and permit eligibility to include national grasslands. The bill modifies Section 402(a) to broaden the definition of eligible federal lands from "lands within National Forests" to "National Forest System land," which includes national grasslands. This change makes ranchers who have grazing agreements on national grasslands eligible for the same treatment as permittees on other federally managed land. The bill includes a savings clause specifying that the amendment does not affect other provisions of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act as applied to national grasslands, and does not modify the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act or the Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978.
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Actions (8)
- Feb 11, 2026 Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 25 - 14. · house
- Feb 11, 2026 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held · house
- Feb 11, 2026 Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged · house
- Jan 14, 2026 Subcommittee Hearings Held · house
- Jan 13, 2026 Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture. · house
- Jan 7, 2026 Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands. · house
- Nov 25, 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
- Nov 25, 2025 Introduced in House
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As published:RC #3 Huffman #1 REVISED to ANS to HR 6300
As published:RC #4 On Favorably Reporting, HR 6300, as amended
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Full text
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
November 25, 2025
Ms. Hageman 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 amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to ensure that ranchers who have grazing agreements on national grasslands are treated the same as permittees on other Federal land.
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 “Grasslands Grazing Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY OF NATIONAL GRASSLANDS FOR GRAZING LEASES AND PERMITS.
(a) In General.—Section 402(a) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1752(a)) is amended by striking “lands within National Forests” and inserting “National Forest System (as defined in section 11(a) of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1609(a))) land”.
(b) Effect.—Nothing in the amendment made by subsection (a) modifies or affects—
(1) the applicability to national grasslands of any provision of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) other than section 402 of that Act (43 U.S.C. 1752);
(2) title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 1010 et seq.); or
(3) section 11 of the Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978 (43 U.S.C. 1907). <all>
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