The America the Beautiful Act invests $1.9 billion every year in America’s national parks, public lands, and Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) facilities over the next five years.
Huffman will support and advance the America the Beautiful Act to invest $1.9 billion per year for five years in national parks, public lands, and Bureau of Indian Education facilities.
Occurrences
Evidence
House Roll Call 155 was on H.R. 1957, the Great American Outdoors Act, and the motion to concur in the Senate amendments passed 310-107. The vote list records Huffman, Democratic, California, as voting Yea.
Public Law 116-152 established the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund. It covers the National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and Bureau of Indian Education, with FY2021-FY2025 deposits capped at $1,900,000,000 per fiscal year.
The archived White House signing record says the President would sign the Great American Outdoors Act into law and describes guaranteed LWCF funding plus nearly $10 billion for long-delayed maintenance projects, repairs, and upgrades.
Assessments
The promise's substance was fulfilled by the Great American Outdoors Act, enacted as Public Law 116-152 on August 4, 2020. It created a FY2021-FY2025 restoration fund capped at $1.9 billion per year for the National Park Service, public land agencies, and Bureau of Indian Education facilities. Although the claim appears to misname the bill as the America the Beautiful Act, Huffman supported and advanced the matching federal legislation by voting Yea on final House concurrence during the same House term.