House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Fill the Lake Act
Official title: To direct the Secretary of the Interior to ensure full pool levels of Flathead Lake in Montana in accordance with certain requirements, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan Zinke R-MTWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 23, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 23, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 716.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ZINKE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 14, January 23, 2025, Page H389):Article 1 Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 23, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 19 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 716, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/716
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- March 25, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 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 March 25, 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
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Ryan Zinke.
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- H.R. 718 (119th) Public Lands in Public Hands Act
- H.R. 1762 (119th) Forest Service Accountability Act
- H.R. 717 (119th) Wildlife Movement Through Partnerships Act of 2025
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 14, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.