Introduce and work to enact legislation to reauthorize the Lake Champlain Basin Program for five years and add an oversight process to evaluate the program's fiscal agent and transparency.

Elise M. Stefanik · New York · Republican

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introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) Enhancements Act of 2026 to reauthorize the Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) for five years... [and] promote transparency in creating an oversight process within the Environmental Protection Agency and the Lake Champlain Steering Committee to evaluate the efficacy of LCBP’s fiscal agent

Stefanik backed legislation to extend the Lake Champlain Basin Program for five years and create an oversight process for its administration.

Chairwoman Stefanik, Senator Welch Lead Bipartisan, Bicameral Bill to Preserve Lake Champlain Basin | Press Releases | Congresswoman Elise Stefanik
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Evidence

The office announced introduction of the Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) Enhancements Act of 2026, saying it would reauthorize the LCBP for five years and create a transparency-focused oversight process within EPA and the Lake Champlain Steering Committee to evaluate the fiscal agent.

Confirms Stefanik introduced the targeted reauthorization and oversight bill, satisfying the introduction part of the pledge but not enactment.

partial same_term A for effort

Chairwoman Stefanik, Senator Welch Lead Bipartisan, Bicameral Bill to Preserve Lake Champlain Basin | Press Releases | Congresswoman Elise Stefanik
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Congress.gov lists H.R. 7560, sponsored by Rep. Elise M. Stefanik, as introduced on 02/12/2026 and referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; the status remains Introduced with no later action shown on the actions page.

Official legislative record shows the bill was introduced and referred, but not advanced to passage or enactment.

unresolved same_term A for effort

H.R.7560 - Actions Overview
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GovInfo's Congressional Record Index for May 5, 2026 cross-references the Lake Champlain item and lists Congressional Bills S. 3833 and H.R. 7560, indicating the legislation remained active enough to be indexed in the Congressional Record materials in the current session.

Recent official indexing confirms the Lake Champlain reauthorization/oversight bills remained on the congressional record radar in the lookback window, but it does not show enactment.

unresolved same_term

CRI2026 - PATRICK LEAHY LAKE CHAMPLAIN BASIN PROGRAM FOUNDATION
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Assessments

partial same_term A for effort

Stefanik introduced H.R. 7560 in the 119th Congress to reauthorize the Lake Champlain Basin Program for five years and add the promised fiscal-agent transparency and oversight process. That satisfies the introduction and serious-effort portions of the promise. However, the official status shows the bill was only introduced and referred to committee, with no evidence of passage or enactment as of May 22, 2026, so the promised legislative outcome has not been fully delivered.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 94%