H.R. 4776 - SPEED Act
H.R. 4776 - SPEED Act
Hearing Information
Amendment Deadline
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 - 12:00pm View Announcement »
Meeting Information
Monday, December 15, 2025 - 4:00pm H-313, The Capitol View Announcement »
Video
Rules Committee Hearing H.R. 4776, 1366, 3616, 3632, 4371, 845
Bill Text
(as reported)
H. Rept. 119-395PDF
Report from the Committee on Natural Resources to accompany H.R. 4776
Hearing Documents
Rule PDF
H. Res. 951 PDF
H. Rept. 119-410 PDF
Rule Information
COMMITTEE ACTION:
REPORTED BY A RECORD VOTE of 9-3 on December, 15, 2025.
MANAGERS: Langworthy/Scanlon
1. Structured rule for H.R. 4776.
2. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
3. Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Natural Resources or their respective designees.
4. Provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Natural Resources now printed in the bill shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read.
5. Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended.
6. Makes in order only the further amendments printed in the Rules Committee report. Each amendment shall be considered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question.
7. Waives all points of order against the amendments printed in the Rules Committee report.
8. Provides one motion to recommit.
9. Closed rule for H.R. 1366.
10. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
11. Provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Natural Resources now printed in the bill shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read.
12. Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended.
13. Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Natural Resources or their respective designees.
14. Provides one motion to recommit.
15. Closed rule for H.R. 845.
16. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
17. Provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Natural Resources now printed in the bill shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read.
18. Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended.
19. Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Natural Resources or their respective designees.
20. Provides one motion to recommit.
21. Closed rule for H.R. 3616.
22. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
23. Provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Energy and Commerce now printed in the bill shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read.
24. Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended.
25. Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce or their respective designees.
26. Provides one motion to recommit.
27. Closed rule for H.R. 3632.
28. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
29. Provides that the bill shall be considered as read.
30. Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill.
31. Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce or their respective designees.
32. Provides one motion to recommit.
33. Closed rule for H.R. 4371.
34. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
35. Provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read.
36. Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended.
37. Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary or their respective designees.
38. Provides one motion to recommit.
Amendments (click each header to sort table ▲▼ by that column)
| # | Version # | Sponsor(s) | Party | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Version 1 | Lee (NV), Elfreth (MD), Goldman (NY), Horsford (NV), Levin (CA), Magaziner (RI), Min (CA), Olszewski (MD), Huffman (CA), Davids (KS), Friedman (CA), Castor (FL), Dexter (OR), Quigley (IL), Titus (NV), McBride (DE), Kelly (IL), Lieu (CA), Kaptur (OH), Neguse (CO), Panetta (CA), Salinas (OR), Tokuda (HI), Foushee (NC), Randall (WA), Menendez (NJ), Carbajal (CA), DeGette (CO), Wasserman Schultz (FL), Vasquez (NM), Mannion (NY) | Democrat | Ensures equal treatment of all energy sources as part of the permitting process at the Department of the Interior. | Submitted |
| 2 | Version 1 | Ansari (AZ) | Democrat | Amends restrictions on consideration of new science during the review period to allow that new science be considered until the final agency action is published. | Submitted |
| 3 | Version 1 | Ansari (AZ) | Democrat | Prevents an agency from considering energy capacity in environmental reviews. | Submitted |
| 4 | Version 1 | Randall (WA) | Democrat | Exempts Tribes from standing restrictions for judicial review and the 21-day timeframe to become a cooperating agency on a project. | Submitted |
| 5 | Version 1 | Min (CA) | Democrat | Prohibits this Act from taking effect until the Department of the Interior repeals guidance requiring all wind and solar permits to be approved by the Secretary. | Submitted |
| 6 | Version 1 | Brownley (CA) | Democrat | Ensures that courts may utilize vacatur or injunctive relief if the final agency action is found not to be in compliance with NEPA. | Submitted |
| 7 | Version 1 | Harder (CA) | Democrat | Withdrawn Establishes timelines to eliminate administrative delays for covered energy projects. | Withdrawn |
| 8 | Version 1 | Harris (MD), Smith (NJ), Van Drew (NJ) | Republican | Strikes the "Permit Certainty" amendment adopted during the SPEED Act markup in November. | Made in Order |
| 9 | Version 1 | Harris (MD), Van Drew (NJ), Smith (NJ) | Republican | Exempts offshore wind activities under Section 8(p) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act from the SPEED Act's reforms to NEPA and the judicial review process. | Made in Order |
| 10 | Version 1 | Harris (MD), Smith (NJ), Van Drew (NJ) | Republican | Exempts project authorizations for which a Federal agency has filed a motion to remand or otherwise reopened between January 20, 2025 and the date of enactment of this act from the NEPA and judicial review reforms made by this act. | Made in Order |
| 11 | Version 1 | Dexter (OR), Elfreth (MD), Huffman (CA), Magaziner (RI), Friedman (CA), Min (CA), Quigley (IL), Levin (CA) | Democrat | Adds a requirement to conduct an analysis of agency staffing levels and permitting capacity. If an agency finds insufficient capacity, directs OPM to develop and execute a plan to increase capacity. Inserts direct hire authority to hire experts and increase capacity. | Submitted |
| 12 | Version 1 | Levin (CA) | Democrat | Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to clarify that clean energy development is consistent with the statutes and multiple-use mandates. | Submitted |
| 13 | Version 1 | Levin (CA), Tran (CA) | Democrat | Requires that before the Department of the Interior can issue a permit for onshore and offshore fossil fuel development, the Department had to have also issued a permit for onshore and offshore renewable energy development. | Submitted |
| 14 | Version 1 | DeGette (CO) | Democrat | Replaces the “scope of review” section to allow agencies to consider reasonably foreseeable environmental effects of proposed agency actions. | Submitted |
| 15 | Version 1 | Fletcher (TX) | Democrat | Strikes the bill's requirement that public comments are unique for the party submitting them to have standing for judicial review. Requiring that the comments are unique could disqualify parties from participating in judicial review who have similar, but substantive concerns. | Submitted |
| 16 | Version 1 | Randall (WA), Tran (CA) | Democrat | Ensures that offshore oil and gas lease sales mandated by OBBBA and the 5 year oil and gas leasing plan still have to go through a NEPA review. | Submitted |
| 17 | Version 1 | Barr (KY) | Republican | Expands FAST-41 eligibility to include projects that extract, recover, or process critical minerals, rare earth elements, or microfine carbon from coal, coal waste, mine tailings, or acid mine drainage. | Submitted |
| 18 | Version 1 | Barr (KY) | Republican | Designates Defense Production Act funded critical mineral production and processing actions covered by Presidential Determination 2022-11 as FAST-41 covered projects and requires their inclusion on the Permitting Dashboard unless a sponsor opts out. Applies this treatment to activities such as feasibility studies, by-product and co-product production, modernization of mining and processing, and other authorized DPA actions. | Submitted |
| 19 | Version 1 | Barr (KY) | Republican | Prohibits the President from denying Defense Production Act title I or title III support to an entity based on its involvement in fossil fuel energy production. Clarifies that domestic energy supply authorities under section 101(c)(1) may not be used for environmental protection purposes. | Submitted |
| 20 | Version 1 | Lieu (CA) | Democrat | Late Requires an annual report for 5 years on the permitting challenges contributing to unused or significantly underutilized data centers and provides information to improve planning for the rapidly developing technology and its impact on the grid. | Submitted |
| 21 | Version 1 | Stansbury (NM) | Democrat | Late Inserts to Page 29, after line 6, a Savings Clause to secure the sovereignty of any Indian Tribe. | Submitted |
| 22 | Version 1 | Ansari (AZ) | Democrat | Late Prevents the White House from commencing construction on any ballrooms on White House grounds until an environmental analysis of the demolition of the East Wing is completed. | Submitted |
| 23 | Version 1 | Moylan (GU) | Republican | Late Removing red tape when federal land is transferred to private ownership in Guam. Does not initiate any specific divestment by the federal government and includes national security review process. | Submitted |
| 24 | Version 1 | Davids (KS) | Democrat | Late Strikes a provision that restricts administrative and judicial review of final agency actions that affect Tribal resources. | Submitted |
| 25 | Version 2 | Huffman (CA) | Democrat | Late Revised Prevents this Act from taking effect until all clean energy and clean energy-related infrastructure grants and funds are reinstated. | Revised |
| 26 | Version 1 | Huffman (CA) | Democrat | Late Strikes the judicial review section of the bill and replaces it with a two-year statute of limitations for claims under NEPA. | Submitted |
| 27 | Version 1 | Casten (IL) | Democrat | SUBSTITUTE Late Strikes the current text and replaces it with a provision requiring the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to require each pair of neighboring transmission planning regions to develop jointly, and file with the Commission, a process by which they will develop an interregional transmission plan to identify and to facilitate the construction or upgrade of onshore and offshore electric transmission facilities that are efficient, cost-effective, and broadly beneficial. | Submitted |
| 28 | Version 1 | Gottheimer (NJ) | Democrat | Late Amends the scope of review to set a floor and not a ceiling and allow for agency flexibility, in accordance with the Seven County decision. | Submitted |
| 29 | Version 1 | Rivas (CA) | Democrat | Late Inserts “energy, including renewable energy” into the Council on Environmental Quality’s mission. | Submitted |
| 30 | Version 1 | Rivas (CA) | Democrat | Late Ensures that a NEPA review takes place for impacts on low-income communities and communities of color. | Submitted |
| 31 | Version 1 | Roy (TX), Harris (MD) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Renders the reforms made to NEPA in this act non-applicable to energy projects eligible for certain tax credits. | Withdrawn |
| 32 | Version 1 | Leger Fernández (NM) | Democrat | Late Strikes the section that amends NEPA's Purpose and Need statements to meet the goals of the applicant. | Submitted |
| 33 | Version 1 | Leger Fernández (NM) | Democrat | Late Removes the judicial review standing requirement that a claimant's filed public comment must be unique. | Submitted |
| 34 | Version 3 | Clyde (GA), Roy (TX), Brecheen (OK) | Republican | Late Revised Clarifies that direct harm does not include emotional, aesthetic, or recreational harm unaccompanied by a material physical or property harm. | Made in Order |
| 35 | Version 3 | Perry (PA), Roy (TX) | Republican | Late Revised Revises the scope of review clause so the bill clarifies that NEPA review only applies to environmental impacts that the lead agency or cooperating federal agencies have the legal authority to regulate. | Made in Order |
| 36 | Version 2 | Roy (TX), Brecheen (OK) | Republican | Late Revised Defines further what significant effects will trigger an Environmental Impact Statement. | Made in Order |
| 37 | Version 1 | Garamendi (CA) | Democrat | Late Removes the provision of the bill that allows permit applicants to approve or deny agency extensions to statutory deadlines. Current law already enables permit applicants to sue if delays are excessive. | Submitted |
Committee Votes
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 220
Motion by Ms. Leger Fernández to make in order amendment #33 to H.R. 4776, offered by Representative Leger Fernández, which removes the judicial review standing requirement that a claimant's filed public comment must be unique. Defeated: 3–9
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 222
Motion by Mr. Langworthy to report the rule. Adopted: 9–3
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 225
Motion by Mr. Griffith to report the rule. Adopted: 6–4