S4103-119

In Committee

Save Our Sequoias Act

119th Congress Introduced Mar 16, 2026

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, Save Our Sequoias Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users. The main policy domain is Environment, Energy, Government Operations.

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 H41DECE9ED45943FE965687F98CDAC564: 1. Short title; table of contents This Act may be cited as the Save Our Sequoias Act. The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
  • Section HD01D407327374074BCE21F95712FE796: 2. Definitions In this Act: The term Assessment means the Giant Sequoia Health and Resiliency Assessment required by section 5. The term Coalition means the...
  • Section H203DD5571B3843B6B3420BF088B20C0B: 3. Shared stewardship agreement for giant sequoias Not later than 90 days after receiving a request from the Governor of the State of California or the Tribe,...
  • Section H0A2CB3F2B808444D86E945D34CC21D69: 4. Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition The Coalition is the entity established under the charter titled Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition Charter (or successor charter)...
  • Section HEE6129D272FA489BA0D1CFCC55D3B884: 5. Giant Sequoia Health and Resiliency Assessment Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Coalition shall submit to the...

Evidence Chain:

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At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, Save Our Sequoias Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Key Policy Areas

Environment, Energy, Government Operations

Primary Purpose

This bill, Save Our Sequoias Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Policy Domains

Environment Energy Government Operations

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
Mar 16, 2026

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and …

Mar 16, 2026

Introduced in Senate

Mar 16, 2026

Mr. Padilla (for himself and Mr. Curtis) introduced the following …

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 Government Operations
Actor Mappings
"secretary_of_agriculture"
→ Secretary of Agriculture

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

2 terms
"Secretary" §HD01D407327374074BCE21F95712FE796

the Secretary of the Interior. The term Secretary concerned means— the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to covered National Forest System lands, or their designee

"Director" §HD9F5506C5044431984FF868B139EACC0

the Director of the Bureau of Land Management with respect to Bureau of Land Management lands and the Director of the National Park Service with respect to lands within Kings Canyon National Park, Sequoia National Park, and Yosemite National Park

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