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Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2025

To rename the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and for other purposes.

Introduced Jul 31, 2025

Latest action (Jul 31, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Referred to
Environment and Public Works Committee
Policy area
Environmental Protection
Issues
Climate & Energy

Summary

This bill renames the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to the Endangered Species Recovery Act. The bill updates all references to the act in federal law, regulations, documents, and other government records to use the new name. The actual provisions and requirements of the law remain unchanged; only the official title is altered.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
5 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Jul 31, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. · senate
  2. Jul 31, 2025 Introduced in Senate

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.

  • HR 4850 — Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2025 · Introduced Aug 1, 2025 · Cong. 119 89%
  • HR 102 — American Sovereignty and Species Protection Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 80%
  • HR 106 — LIST Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 76%
  • HR 180 — Endangered Species Transparency and Reasonableness Act of 2025 · Introduced Jul 22, 2025 · Cong. 119 76%
  • HR 3845 — To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to expand the exemption process under section 7 of that Act with respect to national security and significant adverse national or regional economic impacts. · Introduced Jun 9, 2025 · Cong. 119 76%
  • HR 1897 — ESA Amendments Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 20, 2026 · Cong. 119 76%

Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

July 31, 2025

Ms. Lummis (for herself, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Ricketts, and Mr. Risch) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

A BILL

To rename the Endangered Species Act of 1973, 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 “Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. RENAMING OF THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT OF 1973 TO THE ENDANGERED SPECIES RECOVERY ACT.

(a) Renaming.—The first section of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 note; Public Law 93-205) is amended by striking “may be cited as the ‘Endangered Species Act of 1973”’ and inserting “may be cited as the ‘Endangered Species Recovery Act”’.

(b) References.—Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the “Endangered Species Act of 1973” shall be deemed to be a reference to the “Endangered Species Recovery Act”. <all>

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