H.R. 1235: Leave our Lakes Alone Act
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H.R. 1235: Leave our Lakes Alone Act
113th Congress · introduced 2013-03-18 · Energy · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2013-03-18 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Hartzler, Vicky [R-MO-4] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Leave our Lakes Alone Act
Plain summary
Leave our Lakes Alone Act - Amends the Federal Power Act to prohibit the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) from considering public use and environmental purposes in issuing a license for a project in a state whose law expressly authorizes such a prohibition. Defines "public use and environmental purposes" to mean the purposes of energy conservation, the protection, mitigation of damage to, and enhancement of, fish and wildlife, the protection of recreational opportunities, the preservation of other aspects of environmental quality, and other beneficial public uses, including irrigation, flood control, and water supply, as such purposes apply to land within a project boundary above the highest target elevation for normal operations of the project. Exempts projects on federal land from application of this Act.
Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.
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Official text
Leave our Lakes Alone Act
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Rep. Hartzler, Vicky [R-MO-4] · 5 cosponsors
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Cosponsors on this site
Tom Cotton (R-AR), James Lankford (R-OK), Sam Graves (R-MO), H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-113hr1235.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/113/hr>
Record fed-us-cong113-hr1235 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113