Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act Amendments of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 6229 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 6229 To reauthorize the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 20, 2025 Ms. Schrier (for herself, Mr. Newhouse, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Costa, Mr. Fong, and Ms. Davids of Kansas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To reauthorize the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act Amendments of 2025''. SEC. 2. CLARIFICATIONS REGARDING SMALL COMMUNITIES AND RURAL WATER PROJECTS. (a) Definitions.--Section 5022 of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 (33 U.S.C. 3901) is amended-- (1) by redesignating paragraphs (11) through (15) as paragraphs (13) through (17), respectively; (2) by redesignating paragraph (10) as paragraph (11); (3) by inserting after paragraph (9) the following: ``(10) Rural water project.--The term `rural water project' includes-- ``(A) a rural water supply project authorized under the Reclamation Rural Water Supply Act of 2006 (43 U.S.C. 2401); ``(B) any project authorized under part III of subtitle A of title X of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-11), for a federally recognized