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<dc:title>119 HR 4850 IH: Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2025</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2025-08-01</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">I</distribution-code><congress display="yes">119th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">1st Session</session><legis-num display="yes">H. R. 4850</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber><action display="yes"><action-date date="20250801">August 1, 2025</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="H001096">Ms. Hageman</sponsor> introduced the following bill; which was referred to the <committee-name committee-id="HII00">Committee on Natural Resources</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title display="yes">To rename the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and for other purposes.</official-title></form><legis-body id="HE543C05FE0D449D785ADEDF859F2941A" style="OLC"> 
<section id="HEFA64658D10341DD97C04108D6764ADD" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2025</short-title></quote>.</text></section> <section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7D5FF6344FB54408836E707804A7A00E"><enum>2.</enum><header>Renaming of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to the Endangered Species Recovery Act</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE7DF38F07D4946F7AB9A9FBF532BF52D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Renaming</header><text>The first section of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/1531">16 U.S.C. 1531</external-xref> note; <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/93/205">Public Law 93–205</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>may be cited as the <quote>Endangered Species Act of 1973</quote></quote> and inserting <quote>may be cited as the <quote>Endangered Species Recovery Act</quote></quote>.</text></subsection> 
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H836570BD3B1A4782B82A23545C6FF882"><enum>(b)</enum><header>References</header><text>Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the <quote>Endangered Species Act of 1973</quote> shall be deemed to be a reference to the <quote>Endangered Species Recovery Act</quote>.</text></subsection></section> </legis-body></bill>

