MAPWaters Act

Bill: 118-hr-6127
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Blake D. [R-UT-1]
Introduced: 2023-11-01 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Geography and mapping
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Hunting and fishing
Land use and conservation
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine and inland water transportation
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Outdoor recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-11-01
text: 

Modernizing Access to Our Public Waters Act or the MAPWaters Act

This bill directs the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior to standardize and publish data relating to public outdoor recreational use of federal waterways.

Specifically, the Forest Service and Interior must jointly develop and adopt interagency standards for data collection and dissemination of geospatial data relating to public outdoor recreational use of federal waterways and federal fishing restrictions. The standards must ensure compatibility and interoperability among applicable federal databases with respect to collection and dissemination of such data.

The Forest Service and Interior must also (1) digitize and make publicly available online certain geographic information system data about federal waterway restrictions and federal fishing restrictions, (2) update the information at least twice per year, and (3) develop a process to allow members of the public to submit questions or comments regarding the data.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-18
text: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 728.
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7266-7267)
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7266-7267)
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6127.
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7266-7268)
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2024-12-10
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 687.
action_date: 2024-12-10
text: Committee on Agriculture discharged.
action_date: 2024-12-10
text: Committee on Agriculture discharged.
action_date: 2024-12-10
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 118-842, Part I.
action_date: 2024-12-10
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 118-842, Part I.
action_date: 2024-11-20
text: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2024-11-20
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
action_date: 2024-11-20
text: Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries Discharged
action_date: 2024-08-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry.
action_date: 2023-11-14
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held
action_date: 2023-11-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries.
action_date: 2023-11-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-11-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-11-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-11-01
text: Introduced in House