House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Migratory Bird Protection Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to affirm that the prohibition on the unauthorized take or killing of migratory birds of that Act includes incidental take, and to direct the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to authorize such incidental take, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Jared Huffman D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedMay 5, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 5, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3188.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HUFFMAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 74, May 5, 2025, Page H1855):Article I, Section 8 The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United StatesSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 5, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 281 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3188, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3188
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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 CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of September 19, 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
13 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 12 Democrats
1 of 13 cosponsors (8%) are from the other party.
Donald Beyer (D-VA), Ed Case (D-HI), Judy Chu (D-CA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Kevin Mullin (D-CA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Mike Thompson (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Jared Huffman.
- H.R. 7254 (119th) To amend the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on the feasibility of designating the…
- H.R. 1382 (119th) To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act with respect to San Francisco Bay restoration, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 2598 (119th) IDEA Full Funding Act
- H.R. 3067 (119th) Arctic Refuge Protection Act
- H.R. 2849 (119th) West Coast Ocean Protection Act of 2025
- H.R. 6090 (119th) FRESHER Act of 2025
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.