H.R. 6422 · 119th Congress · Environmental protection
American Water Stewardship Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Mar 24, 2026
Roll call ↗378
32
Passed the House.
Passed the House on March 24, 2026.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works
- IntroducedDec 4, 2025
- CommitteeMar 20, 2026
- Passed HouseMar 24, 2026
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 3
- 2 Democrats, 1 Republican
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public WorksHouse Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
- Lobbying
- At least 7
- organizations named it2025 Q4 to 2026 Q3
What it does
This bill reauthorizes and extends several EPA geographic water programs under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act through fiscal year 2031, including the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, the Long Island Sound program, the Columbia River Basin restoration program, and the National Estuary Program.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, March 24, 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 reauthorizes and extends several EPA geographic water programs under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act through fiscal year 2031, including the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, the Long Island Sound program, the Columbia River Basin restoration program, and the National Estuary Program. It reworks the San Francisco Bay program, replacing its grant-only structure with interagency agreements, contracts, and other funding mechanisms, and caps the federal share of a project at 75 percent. It adds Mississippi Sound, Mississippi to the National Estuary Program, but bars EPA from spending fiscal year 2026 estuary funds on it and conditions fiscal year 2027 funds on an appropriations increase of at least $850,000 over fiscal year 2024. It expands the coastal recreation water quality monitoring grant program, reauthorizes it through 2031, and broadens the definition of coastal recreation waters to include river mouths, nearby shallow waters, and waters on beaches. It bars any of these program funds for fiscal years 2026 through 2031 from going to entities domiciled in, or projects conducted with, a foreign country of concern. It directs the Comptroller General to report within two years on the management, progress, and ethics practices of EPA geographic programs.
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 7 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 18 quarterly reports filed by 1 lobbying firm and by 6 organizations lobbying for themselves in 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: Board of Regents of University of Wisconsin System; University of Michigan; National Parks Conservation Association; National Association of Clean Water Agencies; Nature Conservancy. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 2 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.