Highways Bettering the Economy and Environment Pollinator Protection Act
Have a question about what this bill does? Ask in plain English; the answer is drawn from the bill's actual text and official record, and it'll tell you when something isn't in the text rather than guess.
Highways Bettering the Economy and Environment Pollinator Protection Act - Authorizes as an eligible project cost for the construction of a federal-aid highway the cost of improving habitat and forage for pollinators (i.e. bees, birds, bats, Monarch butterflies, and other butterflies) on rights-of-way adjacent to such highways.
Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT), in conjunction with willing states, to carry out programs that encourage: (1) integrated vegetation management practices on roadsides and other transportation rights-of-ways, including reduced mowing; (2) the development of habitat and forage for pollinators through planting of native forbs and grasses, including noninvasive, native milkweed species; and (3) research and demonstration projects on economic and environmental benefits and best practices for integrated vegetation management, reduced mowing, and planting of native forbs and grasses for pollinator habitat, forage, and migratory way stations for Monarch butterflies and other migrating pollinators.
Authorizes the use of federal funds for the provision of habitat, forage, and migratory way stations for Monarch butterflies, other native pollinators, and honey bees that is related to a federally-funded transportation project.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4790: Highways Bettering the Economy and Environment Pollinator Protection Act. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-4790/
"H.R. 4790: Highways Bettering the Economy and Environment Pollinator Protection Act." 113th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-4790/.
H.R. 4790, 113th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-4790/.
[H.R. 4790: Highways Bettering the Economy and Environment Pollinator Protection Act](https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-4790/)