H.R. 556 · 119th Congress · Public lands and natural resources
Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Mar 18, 2026
Roll call ↗215
202
Passed the House.
Passed the House on March 18, 2026.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works
- IntroducedJan 16, 2025
- CommitteeNov 25, 2025
- Passed HouseMar 18, 2026
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 83
- all Republicans
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public WorksHouse Committee on Natural ResourcesHouse Committee on Agriculture
- Lobbying
- At least 9
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
This bill blocks the Interior and Agriculture Departments from banning lead ammunition or fishing tackle on federal land and water open to hunting or fishing.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, March 18, 2026
Yea unless marked
R · House · AL-4
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
This bill blocks the Interior and Agriculture Departments from banning lead ammunition or fishing tackle on federal land and water open to hunting or fishing. It bars the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Fish and Wildlife Service or the Bureau of Land Management, and the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Forest Service, from prohibiting the use of lead ammunition or tackle, or from issuing regulations on the level of lead in ammunition or tackle, on such land or water. Existing waterfowl-hunting lead-shot rules at two specified sections of federal regulation are preserved. A ban or regulation is allowed only for a specific unit of land or water, and only if the Secretary determines from field data at that unit that lead is the primary cause of a wildlife population decline there, and the restriction is consistent with or approved by the relevant state fish and wildlife department. When a Secretary imposes such a unit-specific restriction, the accompanying Federal Register notice must explain how it meets those requirements.
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.
At least 9 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 42 quarterly reports filed by 9 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: Defenders of Wildlife; National Rifle Association of America; National Shooting Sports Foundation; Backcountry Hunters & Anglers; National Association for Gun Rights. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 4 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
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.