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HR 3898Passed HouseEnvironmenthouse
PERMIT Act
Introduced Jun 11, 2025 by Rep. Mike Collins
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The House passed it. The Senate has to pass it before it can reach the President.
Latest action · Dec 15, 2025
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
What it does
This bill limits the scope of the Clean Water Act by redefining navigable waters to exclude (1) waste treatment systems, (2) ephemeral features that flow only in direct response to precipitation, (3) prior converted cropland, (4) groundwater, or (5) any other features determined to be excluded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service.
Roll-call votes
On Passage
house · Dec 11, 2025
On Motion to Recommit
house · Dec 11, 2025
History
- Dec 15, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
- Dec 11, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Dec 11, 2025On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 221 - 205 (Roll no. 330).
- Dec 11, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 221 - 205 (Roll no. 330).
- Dec 11, 2025On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 210 - 216 (Roll no. 329).
- Dec 11, 2025The previous question on the motion to recommit was ordered pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX.
- Dec 11, 2025Ms. McDonald Rivet moved to recommit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. (text: CR H5793)
- Dec 11, 2025Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5793-5794)
- Dec 11, 2025Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule XIX, the House resumed consideration on HR 3898.
- Dec 11, 2025POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule XIX, the Chair announced further proceedings on H.R. 3898 would be postponed.
- Dec 11, 2025The House adopted the amendments en gros as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
- Dec 11, 2025The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
- Dec 11, 2025The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 3898.
- Dec 11, 2025DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 936, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Peters amendment No. 8.
- Dec 11, 2025DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 936, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Nunn (IA) amendment No. 7.
- Dec 11, 2025DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 936, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Crawford amendment No. 6.
- Dec 11, 2025DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 936, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Biggs (AZ) amendment No. 4.
- Dec 11, 2025DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 936, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Biggs (AZ) amendment No. 3.
- Dec 11, 2025DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 936, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Babin amendment No. 2.
- Dec 11, 2025DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 936, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Bean (FL) amendment No. 1.
- Dec 11, 2025GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 3898.
- Dec 11, 2025The Speaker designated the Honorable Addison P. McDowell to act as Chairman of the Committee.
- Dec 11, 2025House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 936 and Rule XVIII.
- Dec 11, 2025Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3898, H.R. 3383, H.R. 3638, H.R. 3628, H.R. 3668 and S. 1071. The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 3898, H.R. 3383, H.R. 3638, and H.R. 3628 under a structured rule; and H.R. 3668 and S. 1071 under a closed rule. The resolution provides for one motion to recommit on H.R. 3898, H.R. 3383, H.R. 3638, H.R. 3628, and H.R. 3668; and one motion to commit on S. 1071.
- Dec 11, 2025Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 936. (consideration: CR H5768-5787; text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR H5775-5779)
- Dec 9, 2025Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 936 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3898, H.R. 3383, H.R. 3638, H.R. 3628, H.R. 3668 and S. 1071. The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 3898, H.R. 3383, H.R. 3638, and H.R. 3628 under a structured rule; and H.R. 3668 and S. 1071 under a closed rule. The resolution provides for one motion to recommit on H.R. 3898, H.R. 3383, H.R. 3638, H.R. 3628, and H.R. 3668; and one motion to commit on S. 1071.
- Jul 2, 2025Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 145.
- Jul 2, 2025Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 119-180.
- Jun 25, 2025Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Discharged
- Jun 25, 2025Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 34 - 30.
- Jun 25, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Jun 13, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
- Jun 11, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
- Jun 11, 2025Introduced in House