# H.R. 1676 (119th): Make SWAPs Efficient Act of 2025 or the Make State Wildlife Action Plans Efficient Act of 2025

Make SWAPs Efficient Act of 2025 or the Make State Wildlife Action Plans Efficient Act of 2025 This bill modifies the State Wildlife Grant Program (SWGP) to establish a deadline for the Department of the Interior to approve state wildlife conservation and restoration programs. Under the SWGP, Interior provides funding to state wildlife agencies to implement their comprehensive plans (commonly known as state wildlife action plans or SWAPs) for state wildlife conservation and restoration programs. The bill directs Interior to approve a state wildlife conservation and restoration program within 180 days after the date on which the state submitted its SWAP if Interior finds that the SWAP complies with the requirements of the SWGP. If Interior misses the deadline, the bill requires (1) the SWAP to be automatically approved, and (2) Interior to set aside amounts under the Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Account for the state.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: agency_deadline. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: financial_regulation. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: state_grants. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: wildlife_conservation. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 316: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill is a prudential administrative measure. It seeks a legitimate goal, timely review of conservation plans that serves stewardship of wildlife, and it imposes an orderly deadline on the agency. It does not directly advance or restrain a named moral harm, so it is best classed as mixed or prudential rather than good or evil.
Theological note: The measure concerns administrative timeliness and federal grant administration for wildlife conservation. Scripture's call to stewardship of creation and to faithful, orderly governance is relevant in a general way, but the bill raises no direct moral question about human life, the corruption of persons, or the coercive use of state power.

## Recorded votes

Roll 316: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Yea 400 · Nay 0 · Other 32.

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