S2128-119

In Committee

MONARCH Act of 2025

119th Congress Introduced Jun 18, 2025

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, MONARCH Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting federal agencies and legislative administrators. The main policy domain is Government Operations, Environment, Agriculture.

Who Benefits and How

federal agencies and legislative administrators may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section H9AA7508E5FD340C990358B949E0721C1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Monarch Action, Recovery, and Conservation of Habitat Act of 2025 or the MONARCH Act of 2025.
  • Section HD30B2736F644406BB111E512E485F985: 2. Findings Congress finds that— the population of western monarch butterflies is at imminent risk of extinction; over the past 3 decades, the population of...
  • Section H89C8E36B03D24008B6B885335F15CAF3: 3. Definitions In this Act: The term conservation means the use of each method or procedure necessary to protect habitats of western monarch butterflies and...
  • Section HD533C84925D04A1BA7A12C90645E034A: 4. Western monarch butterfly conservation grant program Subject to the availability of funds and in consultation with other relevant Federal agencies, amounts...
  • Section H0E1D59FE99C345A2A71D836918AC3E2D: 5. Western Monarch Butterfly Rescue Fund There is established in the Treasury of the United States a fund, to be known as the Western Monarch Butterfly Rescue...

Evidence Chain:

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At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, MONARCH Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting federal agencies and legislative administrators.

Key Policy Areas

Government Operations, Environment, Agriculture

Primary Purpose

This bill, MONARCH Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting federal agencies and legislative administrators.

Policy Domains

Government Operations Environment Agriculture

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • federal agencies and legislative administrators
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federal agencies and legislative administrators:
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
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federal implementing agencies:

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Jun 18, 2025

Mr. Merkley (for himself, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Wyden, …

Jun 18, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and …

Jun 18, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Government Operations Environment Agriculture
Actor Mappings
"the_secretary"
→ The Secretary identified in the operative section

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