HR1043Enacted into Law
La Paz County Solar Energy and Job Creation Act
Introduced
In Committee
Passed One Chamber
Passed Both
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-02-06
Introduced
2
Cosponsors
HR
ⓘType
Sponsor
Paul A. Gosar
Republican · AZ · Representative
Votes with party: 89.7% (611 recorded votes)
Full profile: /officials/G000565
Source: Congress.gov · FEC
Cosponsors (2)
Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.
Latest Action
The most recent step in the bill's legislative path. Committee Activity below shows referrals and reports; the full action-by-action history including floor proceedings lives at Congress.gov →
By Senator Lee from Committee on Energy and Natural Resources filed written report. Report No. 119-109.
2026-02-11
Source: Congress.gov
Committee Activity
Currently in
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesReported By · 2026-02-11
- House Committee on Natural ResourcesReported By · 2025-07-02
Previously
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesDischarged From · 2025-12-16
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesMarkup By · 2025-09-11
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesReferred To · 2025-07-22
- House Committee on Natural ResourcesMarkup By · 2025-04-09
- House Committee on Natural ResourcesReferred To · 2025-02-06
Plain-English Summary
La Paz County Solar Energy and Job Creation Act This act directs the Department of the Interior, after receiving a request from La Paz County, Arizona, to convey approximately 3,400 acres of identified land managed by the Bureau of Land Management to the county for fair market value. Interior must exclude from the conveyance any federal land that contains significant cultural, environmental, wildlife, or recreational resources. As a condition of the conveyance, La Paz County and any subsequent owner must make good faith efforts to avoid disturbing tribal artifacts; minimize impacts on tribal artifacts if they are disturbed; coordinate with the Colorado River Indian Tribes Tribal Historic Preservation Office to identify artifacts of cultural and historic significance; and allow tribal representatives to rebury unearthed artifacts at, or near, where they were discovered. The federal land is withdrawn from the operation of U.S. mining and mineral leasing laws, and thus the land is not available for new mining claims, new mineral or geothermal leases, nor sales of mineral materials. The county must pay all costs related to the conveyance.
Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.
Subjects
Public Lands and Natural Resources
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