S2179-119

In Committee

Canyon’s Law

119th Congress Introduced Jun 26, 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, Canyon’s Law, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users. The main policy domain is Environment, Energy, Agriculture.

Who Benefits and How

environmental regulators and natural-resource users 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, environmental regulators and natural-resource users may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section HDBCB59EC77E24B63AF30C2B79FB39F88: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as Canyon’s Law.
  • Section H7552E2E5592342F48680304FCB38B6E2: 2. Findings Congress finds the following: Sodium cyanide is the highly toxic pesticide active ingredient used in M–44 devices, also known as cyanide bombs, and...
  • Section H898B177DB3D343DEB5CC0FB1ED798A68: 3. Use of M–44 devices on public land prohibited Preparing, placing, installing, setting, deploying, or otherwise using an M–44 device on public land is...

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, Canyon’s Law, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Key Policy Areas

Environment, Energy, Agriculture

Primary Purpose

This bill, Canyon’s Law, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Policy Domains

Environment Energy Agriculture

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • environmental regulators and natural-resource users
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environmental regulators and natural-resource users:
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • environmental regulators and natural-resource users
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federal implementing agencies:
environmental regulators and natural-resource users:

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Jun 26, 2025

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

Jun 26, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and …

Jun 26, 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
Environment Energy Agriculture
Actor Mappings
"federal_implementing_agencies"
→ Federal agencies assigned duties by the bill

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