Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
Benton MacKaye National Scenic Trail Feasibility Study Act of 2025
Official title: A bill to amend the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study on the feasibility of designating the Benton MacKaye Trail as a national scenic trail.
Sponsor: Sen. Thomas Tillis R-NCWhere it went
- IntroducedApr 9, 2025
- Committee actionOct 21, 2025
- Passed Senate—
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 27, 2025 — Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 211.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1376.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1376, Benton MacKaye National Scenic Trail Feasibility Study Act of 2025” on January 6, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As reported by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry on October 27, 2025”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 6, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61996
- CBO publication date
- January 6, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 1376, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/1376
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 27, 2026
- 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 committee report (as of July 27, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 1376, last updated July 27, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
4 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 2 Democrats
2 of 4 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Ted Budd (R-NC), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Raphael Warnock (D-GA).
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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.