Bill · S. 3022· Senate(119-S-3022)
Save Our Seas 2.0 Marine Debris Infrastructure Programs Reauthorization Act
Age: 62 years
Alaska
- Introduced
- 10/21/2025
- Last activity
- 11/20/2025 — Held at the desk.
- Sponsored by
- Dan Sullivan
- Cosponsors
- - 0 - 1
Environmental Protection
- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Awaiting House
What this bill would do
This act is called the "Save Our Seas 2.0 Marine Debris Infrastructure Programs Reauthorization Act". It amends the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act to reauthorize specific Environmental Protection Agency programs. The bill changes the expiration date for these programs from 2025 to 2030.
Yes
Does this better protect air, water and wildlife?+5
Reauthorizes EPA programs to combat plastic waste in marine environments.
The opposite
No question was scored the opposite.
Who it would affect, and how
Potential Positive Impacts for People
- Combatting Plastic Waste: The bill reauthorizes EPA programs aimed at combating plastic waste through Section 2, which extends these efforts until 2030.
Potential Negative Impacts for People
- No negative impacts for people are explicitly mentioned in the provided text.
Groups and Interests Ranking
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- Environment Energy And Infrastructure
- Improves Environmental Protections+5
- 11/20/2025
- Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- Held at the desk.
- Received in the House.
- 11/19/2025
- Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
- Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8248; text: CR S8248)
- 10/29/2025
- Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
- Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Capito without amendment. Without written report.
- Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 230.
- 10/21/2025
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
- 1 Cosponsor added.
- Introduced in Senate
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Sheldon WhitehouseDemocrat · Rhode Island