House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Red Snapper Act of 2025
Official title: To provide that the Secretary of Commerce shall not issue an interim or final rule or Secretarial Amendment that includes an area or bottom closure in the South Atlantic for species managed under the Fishery Management Plan for the Snapper-Grouper Fishery of the South Atlantic Region until the South Atlantic Great Red Snapper Count study is complete and the data related to that study is integrated into the stock assessment.
Sponsor: Rep. John Rutherford R-FLWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 16, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 16, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 470.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. RUTHERFORD, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 9, January 16, 2025, Page H221):Article I, Section 8 of the United States ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 16, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 54 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 470, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/470
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). 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
26 cosponsors — 24 Republicans, 2 Democrats
2 of 26 cosponsors (8%) are from the other party.
Aaron Bean (R-FL), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Earl Carter (R-GA), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Byron Donalds (R-FL), Neal Dunn (R-FL), Mike Ezell (R-MS), Randy Fine (R-FL), Scott Franklin (R-FL), Russell Fry (R-SC), Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), Mike Haridopolos (R-FL), Laurel Lee (R-FL), Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Nancy Mace (R-SC), Brian Mast (R-FL), Addison McDowell (R-NC), Cory Mills (R-FL), Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), David Rouzer (R-NC), Maria Salazar (R-FL), Austin Scott (R-GA), Darren Soto (D-FL), W. Steube (R-FL), Daniel Webster (R-FL).
More from the sponsor
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- H.R. 2094 (119th) HELPER Act of 2025
- H.R. 1773 (119th) Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act of 2025
- H.R. 1551 (119th) Protect and Serve Act of 2025
- H.R. 2577 (119th) PLAN for School Safety Act of 2025
- H.R. 6068 (119th) PROTECT Florida Act
Related bills
- S. 111 (119th) Red Snapper Act of 2025Identical bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.