Sinkhole Mapping Act of 2025
Introduced Jan 31, 2025 by Rep. Darren Soto
The House passed it. The Senate has to pass it before it can reach the President.
This bill directs the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to establish a program to
study the short-term and long-term mechanisms that cause sinkholes, including extreme storm events, prolonged droughts causing shifts in water management practices, aquifer depletion, and other major changes in water use; and
develop maps, using three-dimensional elevation data, that depict zones that are at greater risk of forming sinkholes.
The USGS must establish a public website that displays such maps and other relevant information critical for use by community planners and emergency managers.
Summary 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.
- Jul 15, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- Jul 14, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Jul 14, 2025On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3223)
- Jul 14, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
- Jul 14, 2025DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 900.
- Jul 14, 2025Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3223-3224)
- Jul 14, 2025Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Jul 2, 2025Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 147.
- Jul 2, 2025Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-182.
- Apr 9, 2025Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Unanimous Consent.
- Apr 9, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Jan 31, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
- Jan 31, 2025Introduced in House