Protect Louisiana’s GOMESA funding for coastal restoration.

leads the fight in Washington to protect Louisiana’s GOMESA funding, ensuring Louisiana has access to hundreds of millions of dollars dedicated to restoring its coast

Scalise commits to protecting Louisiana’s GOMESA funding for coastal restoration.

Biography | Congressman Steve Scalise
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Current statutory notes for GOMESA require 50 percent of qualified Gulf OCS revenues to be placed in a special Treasury account, with 75 percent of that account disbursed to Gulf producing states. Authorized uses include coastal protection, conservation, coastal restoration, hurricane protection, and infrastructure directly affected by coastal wetland losses. Amounts are made available without further appropriation and remain available until expended. The current limitation is $650,000,000 for each fiscal year 2025 through 2034.

GOMESA funding remains legally protected for Gulf states and coastal restoration purposes, and current law raised the distribution cap for FY2025-FY2034.

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43 U.S. Code § 1331 notes - Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006
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Section 50102 requires the Secretary of the Interior to conduct at least 30 region-wide Gulf offshore oil and gas lease sales, including one by December 15, 2025 and two annually from 2026 through 2039. The same section amends GOMESA's revenue-distribution limitation to $650,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2025 through 2034 and $500,000,000 for fiscal years 2035 through 2055.

The enacted 2025 reconciliation law both protects future Gulf revenue generation and increases the GOMESA distribution cap during Scalise's 119th Congress term.

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Text - H.R.1 - 119th Congress: Public Law 119-21
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Congress.gov records H.R.1 as becoming Public Law No. 119-21 on July 4, 2025. The final House action on July 3, 2025 agreed to the Senate amendment by recorded vote, 218-214, and the bill was signed by the President on July 4, 2025.

The GOMESA cap increase and Gulf lease-sale provisions were enacted into law, not merely proposed.

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Actions - H.R.1 - 119th Congress
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House Roll Call Vote 190 shows the motion to concur in the Senate amendment to H.R.1 passed 218-214. Steve Scalise, Republican of Louisiana, voted Aye.

Scalise voted for the final House passage step for the law that amended GOMESA and raised the FY2025-FY2034 revenue-distribution cap.

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House Roll Call Vote 190, 119th Congress - H.R.1 Senate Amendment
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Sen. Cassidy's release says Gulf of Mexico energy royalties are shared by Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, LWCF state-side, and the U.S. Treasury. It states Louisiana constitutionally dedicates offshore energy revenues to conservation, restoration, and environmental projects to preserve and restore its eroding coastline. The RISEE Act proposal would amend GOMESA by eliminating the state revenue-sharing cap, then $375 million.

Official congressional context confirms that Louisiana GOMESA funds are dedicated to coastal restoration and that lawmakers pursued stronger revenue sharing before the later enacted cap increase.

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Cassidy, Whitehouse Reintroduce Bill to Strengthen Revenue Sharing Program
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Louisiana CPRA said the FY2024 Annual Plan projected $1.62 billion in revenues and expenditures to fund 147 coastal projects, with an estimated $1.3 billion, or 93 percent of projected revenues, going directly to building projects in the coastal program.

Louisiana continued using major coastal-program revenues for coastal restoration and protection projects; this supports that the protected funding stream remained operational, though the release is not GOMESA-specific.

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Gov. Edwards, CPRA Celebrate Passage of 2023 Coastal Master Plan and FY 2024 Annual Plan
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House Roll Call Vote 182 shows H.R.1, the Lower Energy Costs Act, passed the House 225-204. The vote record lists Steve Scalise, Republican of Louisiana, as voting Yea.

Before the enacted 2025 law, Scalise supported House-passed legislation to expand domestic energy leasing, a concrete but incomplete effort relevant to maintaining Gulf revenue streams.

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House Roll Call Vote 182, 118th Congress - H.R.1 Lower Energy Costs Act
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