# H.R. 776 (119th): Nutria Eradication and Control Reauthorization Act of 2025

Nutria Eradication and Control Reauthorization Act of 2025 This bill reauthorizes through FY2030 the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003, which allows the Department of the Interior to provide financial assistance to states for (1) eradicating or controlling nutria, and (2) restoring marshland damaged by nutria. Nutria are invasive, semi-aquatic rodents.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: environmental_stewardship. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: invasive_species. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: wetland_restoration. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 29: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill funds a practical environmental program against an invasive species and restores damaged marshland. Those are ordinary prudential goods. The summary shows no direct restraint of evil or direct advancement of moral harm, so it is not classed as good or evil. Its effects on spending and implementation are ordinary policy questions.
Theological note: Stewardship of creation and care for land that people depend on are issues of relevance here, since invasive species can damage marshes and ecosystems. The measure is a prudential resource-management program and does not itself address a direct moral wrong.

## Recorded votes

Roll 29: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Yea 361 · Nay 56 · Other 16.

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