Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 2025
Official title: A bill to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture from prohibiting the use of lead ammunition or tackle on certain Federal land… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: A bill to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture from prohibiting the use of lead ammunition or tackle on certain Federal land or water under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 2025
This bill bars the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the Forest Service from prohibiting or regulating the use of lead ammunition or tackle on federal land or water. The bill makes exceptions for specified existing regulations and where the FWS, the BLM, or the Forest Service determines that a decline in wildlife population at the specific unit of federal land or water is primarily caused by the use of lead in ammunition or tackle, based on the field data from such unit, and the state approves the regulations.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
- DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE
- NATIONAL SHOOTING SPORTS FOUNDATION
- HUMANE WORLD ACTION FUND AND AFFILIATES (FORMERLY KNOWN AS HUMANE SOCIETY LEGISLATIVE FUND)
- DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE
- NATIONAL SHOOTING SPORTS FOUNDATION
- NATIONAL SHOOTING SPORTS FOUNDATION
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Interior, Dept of (DOI)
- Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Justice, Dept of (DOJ)
- Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 537: Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-537/
"S. 537: Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-537/.
S. 537, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-537/.
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