H.R. 3276 · 119th Congress · Environmental protection
Local Communities & Bird Habitat Stewardship Act of 2026
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Sep 14, 2026
Roll call ↗345
60
Passed the House.
Passed the House on September 14, 2026.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works
- IntroducedMay 8, 2025
- CommitteeAug 20, 2026
- Passed HouseSep 14, 2026
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 21
- 18 Democrats, 3 Republicans
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public WorksHouse Committee on Natural Resources
- Lobbying
- None read
- No filing read so far names H.R. 3276
What it does
This bill directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the U.S.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, September 14, 2026
Yea unless marked
D · House · NC-12
R · House · AL-4
D · House · CA-33
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
This bill directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to create the Urban Bird Treaty Program for the voluntary conservation of birds and their habitats in cities. The Director must work with federal, tribal, state, and municipal agencies, nonprofit groups, community groups, and academic institutions to protect and restore urban bird habitat, reduce hazards to birds, and engage the public in monitoring and education. The bill creates a competitive grant program so tribal, state, and municipal agencies, nonprofit groups, community groups, and academic institutions can apply for funding for research, planning, and habitat work. The Director may have the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation administer the grants, and the bill exempts that arrangement, and the funds used for it, from section 10(a) of the Foundation's own establishment act. The Director must try to spread grants fairly across small, midsize, and large cities. The bill authorizes $200,000 a year for the program from 2027 through 2033. The House passed it on September 14, 2026, 345 to 60.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
No organization named this measure in a lobbying filing we could read with confidence. That is not a finding that nobody lobbied it. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, and a reference that could not be pinned to exactly one measure is refused rather than guessed.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.