A bill to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, of 1968 by designating a segment of the New River as a potential component of the national wild and scenic rivers system.
Latest action. Measure failed of passage in House under suspension of the rulesA House fast track for uncontroversial bills: 40 minutes of debate, no amendments, and a two-thirds vote to pass.Read the full definition (opens a new tab), roll call #712 (196-181).
Designates, under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act a segment of the New River as a potential component of the national wild and scenic rivers system. (Amends 16 U.S.C. 1276(a))
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in Senate" stage on September 19, 1973. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
This bill failed the vote the record describes below. A measure that fails is not revived; the same text has to be introduced again as a new measure.
The record's latest action, on December 18, 1974: Measure failed of passage in House under suspension of the rules, roll call #712 (196-181).
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
JESSE HELMS (R-NC) introduced it on September 19, 1973, and 1 member has since signed on as a cosponsor.
They are 1 Democrat.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- SenateDid not advance · December 18, 1974
- HouseNot reached
- PresidentNot reached