S513-119

In Committee

Help Our Kelp Act of 2025

119th Congress Introduced Feb 11, 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, Help Our Kelp Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting schools, students, and education providers. The main policy domain is Education, Environment, Government Operations.

Who Benefits and How

schools, students, and education providers 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, schools, students, and education providers may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section S1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Help Our Kelp Act of 2025.
  • Section idaffd9efa761f48cca9e4bdefc800faf3: 2. Grants to conserve, restore, and manage kelp forest ecosystems The Administrator shall establish, not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of...

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, Help Our Kelp Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting schools, students, and education providers.

Key Policy Areas

Education, Environment, Government Operations

Primary Purpose

This bill, Help Our Kelp Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting schools, students, and education providers.

Policy Domains

Education Environment Government Operations

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • schools, students, and education providers
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schools, students, and education providers:
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • schools, students, and education providers
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federal implementing agencies:
schools, students, and education providers:

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Feb 11, 2025

Mr. Merkley (for himself, Mr. King, Mr. Wyden, and Mr. …

Feb 11, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, …

Feb 11, 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
Education Environment Government Operations
Actor Mappings
"the_administrator"
→ The Administrator identified in the operative section
"secretary_of_commerce"
→ Secretary of Commerce

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

1 term
"local government" §idaffd9efa761f48cca9e4bdefc800faf3

a unit of general local government, a school district, or other special district established under State law. The term nonprofit organization means an organization— described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986

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