Legislation· Sep 2026Sponsored by Vince Fong (R)
Save Our Sequoias Act
Authorizes emergency protection and reforestation of giant sequoia groves in California for seven years.
Tradeoff
Declares a seven-year emergency on federal lands with giant sequoias, letting officials fast-track tree protection and restoration without environmental reviews. Establishes grants and a charitable fund to pay for the work, with no stated federal .
What's in it
Passed the House by on March 16, 2026 — now in the Senate.
House
Introduced
(Apr 8, 2025)
House
Committee on Natural Resources(Apr 8, 2025)
The bill went to more than one committee at the same time.
House
The Committee on Natural Resources voted to send it to the floor
Reported(Mar 5, 2026)
Committee report H. Rept. 119-542, Part I.
House
Passage of the bill
Passed by (Mar 16, 2026)
No individual votes were recorded.
Senate
Received from the House
on Energy and Natural Resources(Mar 17, 2026)
- Scott H. Peters (D-CA)
- Jim Costa (D-CA)
- Bruce Westerman (R-AR)
- Daniel Webster (R-FL)
- Jimmy Panetta (D-CA)
- Dan Newhouse (R-WA)
- John Garamendi (D-CA)
- David G. Valadao (R-CA)
- Sanford D. Bishop (D-GA)
- Doug LaMalfa (R-CA)
- J. Luis Correa (D-CA)
- Young Kim (R-CA)
- John H. Rutherford (R-FL)
- Josh Harder (D-CA)
- Jay Obernolte (R-CA)
- Jared F. Golden (D-ME)
- Tom McClintock (R-CA)
- Juan Vargas (D-CA)
- Kevin Kiley (R-CA)
- Ami Bera (D-CA)
- Ken Calvert (R-CA)
- Steven Horsford (D-NV)
- Darrell Issa (R-CA)
- Cliff Bentz (R-OR)
- Russ Fulcher (R-ID)
- Blake D. Moore (R-UT)
- Susie Lee (D-NV)
- Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann (R-TN)
- Adam Gray (D-CA)