Save Our Sequoias Act
Introduced Apr 8, 2025 by Rep. Vince Fong
The House passed it. The Senate has to pass it before it can reach the President.
Save Our Sequoias Act
This bill provides for the conservation of giant sequoia trees (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in California.
Specifically, it provides statutory authority for the Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition and outlines the coalition's duties. The coalition must submit a Giant Sequoia Health and Resiliency Assessment and annually update it. The information from the assessment must be made available so the information can be integrated into certain other plans. The coalition must also create and maintain a website that contains the assessment, educational materials, searchable information about individual giant sequoia groves, and a searchable database to track the status and costs of reforestation and rehabilitation activities.
In addition, the bill declares an emergency on certain public lands and allows officials to carry out protection plans during the emergency to respond to the threat of wildfires, insects, and drought. The emergency expires after seven years.
Read the full summary on Congress.govSummary by the Congressional Research Service.
No recorded roll-call vote on this bill — it may have passed by voice vote or unanimous consent, which don't record individual votes.
- Sep 16, 2026Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.
- Mar 17, 2026Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- Mar 16, 2026Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Mar 16, 2026On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2503-2507)
- Mar 16, 2026Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2503-2507)
- Mar 16, 2026DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2709.
- Mar 16, 2026Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2503-2509)
- Mar 16, 2026Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Mar 12, 2026Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 466.
- Mar 12, 2026Committee on Agriculture discharged.
- Mar 12, 2026Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-542, Part I.
- Mar 5, 2026Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
- Mar 5, 2026Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Apr 18, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.
- Apr 8, 2025Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Apr 8, 2025Introduced in House