# H.R. 556 (119th): Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 2025

Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 2025 This bill bars the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the Forest Service from prohibiting or regulating the use of lead ammunition or tackle on federal land or water. The bill makes exceptions for specified existing regulations and where the FWS, the BLM, or the Forest Service determines that a decline in wildlife population at the specific unit of federal land or water is primarily caused by the use of lead in ammunition or tackle, based on the field data from such unit, and the state approves the regulations.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: environmental_protection. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: family_policy. Category: children. Lane tag: command.
Lane: hunting_access. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: lead_ammunition. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: wildlife_management. 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 92: On Motion to Recommit. Vote type: recommit.
Roll 93: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill combines a legitimate interest in lawful hunting and angling access with a prudential concern about federal overreach and wildlife stewardship. It does not directly advance a named moral evil, nor does it clearly restrain one. The dispute is an ordinary policy disagreement about environmental regulation and access, so it is classified as mixed rather than as a hard moral verdict.
Theological note: The measure concerns the stewardship of creation and the lawful use of God-given game for food and recreation, alongside the responsibility of civil authorities to avoid needless harm to wildlife and to respect the proper limits of federal administrative power. Scripture grants dominion under moral constraint, so both lawful hunting access and care for creatures are relevant. The bill is best read as a prudential question about how federal land policy should balance these concerns, not as a direct moral verdict.

## Recorded votes

Roll 92: On Motion to Recommit. Yea 206 · Nay 209 · Other 17.
Roll 93: On Passage. Yea 215 · Nay 202 · Other 15.

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