MONARCH Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 4062 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4062 To encourage and facilitate efforts by States and other stakeholders to conserve and sustain the western population of monarch butterflies, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 20, 2025 Mr. Panetta (for himself, Mr. Carbajal, Ms. Norton, Ms. Tokuda, Mr. Costa, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Mr. Min, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Stanton, and Mrs. Dingell) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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 encourage and facilitate efforts by States and other stakeholders to conserve and sustain the western population of monarch butterflies, 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 ``Monarch Action, Recovery, and Conservation of Habitat Act of 2025'' or the ``MONARCH Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds that-- (1) the population of western monarch butterflies is at imminent risk of extinction; (2) over the past 3 decades, the population of western monarch butterflies has declined by more than 99 percent due to prolonged drought, loss of milkweed and native pollinator habitat, loss of breeding and overwintering habitat, and climate change; (3) in 2020, the population of western monarch butterflies reached a new historic low of 1,914 butterflies, falling below the predicted extinction threshold for the third year in a row; (4) in 2024, the population o