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H.R. 2164: Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2021

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H.R. 2164: Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2021

117th Congress · introduced 2021-03-23 · Environmental Protection · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2021-03-23 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2021

Plain summary

Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2021 This bill requires hydraulic fracturing operations to test for and report on underground sources of drinking water that are contaminated by such operations. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a process to extract underground resources such as oil or gas from a geologic formation by injecting water, a propping agent (e.g., sand), and chemical additives into a well under enough pressure to fracture the formation. Specifically, this bill revises requirements governing state underground injection control programs. In order to obtain primary enforcement responsibility for such programs, states must prohibit the underground injection of fluids or propping agents pursuant to hydraulic fracturing operations related to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities unless the hydraulic fracturing operations agree to test for and report on contamination of drinking water. Hydraulic fracturing operations are exempted from those testing and reporting requirements if there is no accessible underground source of drinking water within a radius of one mile of the site where the operations occur. The Environmental Protection Agency must establish and maintain a publicly accessible and searchable database of the testing results.

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Official text

Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2021

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] · 37 cosponsors

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Diana DeGette (D-CO), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Doris O. Matsui (D-CA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Joseph D. Morelle (D-NY), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Adam Smith (D-WA), Peter Welch (D-VT), Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (D-VA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Grace Meng (D-NY), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] reported raising $415,385 (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Exemption
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Sources

Record fed-us-cong117-hr2164 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117