House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Public Lands in Public Hands Act
Official title: To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture from transferring certain Federal land, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 23, 2025
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 28, 2025 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 718.
- 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. 718, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/718
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
2f53dfe3643efcb4a334191beb01eb4f4d43bbbabf8ed78b7a6d84ade9f77d39
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
18 cosponsors — 5 Republicans, 12 Democrats, 1 independent
13 of 18 cosponsors (72%) are from the other party.
Janelle Bynum (D-OR), Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Troy Downing (R-MT), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), Val Hoyle (D-OR), Thomas Kean (R-NJ), Kevin Kiley (I-CA), Young Kim (R-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Kim Schrier (D-WA), Michael Simpson (R-ID), Greg Stanton (D-AZ), Gabe Vasquez (D-NM), Eugene Vindman (D-VA), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Ryan Zinke.
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- H.R. 1762 (119th) Forest Service Accountability Act
- H.R. 717 (119th) Wildlife Movement Through Partnerships Act of 2025
- H.R. 6120 (119th) SROS Act
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.