House bill · 117th Congress · Did not become law
Protecting America’s Wilderness and Public Lands Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 4, 2021
- Committee actionskipped
- Passed HouseFeb 26, 2021 · 227–200
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 2, 2021 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 803.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “CBO’s Estimate of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Effects of Rules Committee Print 117-2 for H.R. 803, The Protecting America’s Wilderness and Public Lands Act, with the Manager’s Amendment” on February 23, 2021. CBO’s description reads “As Posted on the Website of the House Committee on Rules on February 19, 2021”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 23, 2021 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57013
- CBO publication date
- February 23, 2021
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 803, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/803
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 8, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 16, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
54061a6e4635519ef7f10070cb5ae44f0f17e89dc62afb1165d17206bfd51af0
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Effects of Rules Committee Print 117-2 for H.R. 803, The Protecting America’s Wilderness and Public Lands Act, with the Manager’s Amendment” on February 23, 2021. CBO’s description reads “As Posted on the Website of the House Committee on Rules on February 19, 2021”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 23, 2021 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57013
- CBO publication date
- February 23, 2021
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 803, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/803
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 8, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 16, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
54061a6e4635519ef7f10070cb5ae44f0f17e89dc62afb1165d17206bfd51af0
PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. DeGETTE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 21, February 4, 2021, Page H387):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 4, 2021 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 803, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/803
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 8, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 16, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
54061a6e4635519ef7f10070cb5ae44f0f17e89dc62afb1165d17206bfd51af0
PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of September 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
3 cosponsors — 3 Democrats
0 of 3 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 16, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.