United StatesSea Turtle Rescue Assistance and Rehabilitation Act of 2025
What it does
This bill reauthorizes through FY2030 and expands the John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue and Response Grant Program to include separate grants to rescue sea turtles. The grants must be used for
More detail
the recovery, care, or treatment of sick, injured, or entangled sea turtles;
responses to rescue stranded sea turtles;
the collection of data and samples from living or dead stranded sea turtles for scientific research or health assessments;
facility operating costs that are directly related to activities to assist sea turtles; or
development of stranding network capacity where facilities do not exist or are sparse.
In addition, the bill establishes the Sea Turtle Rescue, Rehabilitation, and Rapid Response Fund.
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- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To President
- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- Mar 24Message on Senate action sent to the House.Latest
- Mar 24Received in the House.
- Mar 24Held at the desk.
- Mar 22Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1503-1504; text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S1504)Passed Senate
- 2025
- Jul 16Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment. With written report No. 119-41.
- Jul 16Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 118.
- Mar 12Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
- Mar 4Introduced in Senate
- Mar 4Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.Introduced