STARS Act
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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
2025-12-10
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Committee Activity
Currently in
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesReferred To · 2025-12-10
- House Committee on Natural ResourcesReported By · 2025-09-15
Previously
- House Committee on Natural ResourcesMarkup By · 2025-07-23
- House Committee on Natural ResourcesDischarged from · 2025-07-23
- House Committee on Natural ResourcesReferred To · 2025-07-02
Plain-English Summary
Semiquincentennial Tourism and Access to Recreation Sites Act or the STARS Act This bill directs the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service to designate September 17, 2026, as an entrance-fee free date in honor of the 250th anniversary of the United States of America. On that date, Interior must waive (1) the entrance fees for all visitors of National Park Service sites; and (2) the standard amenity recreation fees for all visitors to each site managed by the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, or the Bureau of Reclamation. The Forest Service must waive the standard amenity recreation fees on that date for all visitors to sites it manages.
Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.
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