# 119-hr-1420: Pacific Flyway Habitat Enhancement Act

119-hr-1420, Pacific Flyway Habitat Enhancement Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. LaMalfa, Doug [R-CA-1] (R-CA); status in_committee; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-07-29).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-1420
- Congress: 119
- Title: Pacific Flyway Habitat Enhancement Act
- Status: in_committee
- Introduced: 2025-02-18
- Sponsor: Rep. LaMalfa, Doug [R-CA-1] (R-CA)
- Cosponsors: 5
- Policy area: Agriculture and Food
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-07-29

## Summary

**Creates a new "seasonally flooded working lands" conservation agreement inside the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program.** It would let USDA and state technical committees enroll additional agricultural acres, allow seasonal flooding on working cropland when at least one best management practice is used, and permit waiving the usual matching requirement while aligning rental payments with regional habitat costs. - Farmers and landowners: Would be able to enroll otherwise ineligible acres and still use those fields for seasonal flooding when they adopt at least one best management practice. It also directs rental payments to match regional costs for maintaining seasonally flooded habitat. - State technical committees and USDA: Gives the Secretary, in consultation with State technical committees, authority to enroll extra land when doing so is critical to meeting agreement goals and to waive the standard matching requirement for these agreements. - Wetland-dependent wildlife and habitats: Targets restoration and maintenance of seasonal wetland habitat on working cropland to improve quantity and quality of habitat for wetland-dependent species in the Pacific Flyway region.

## Cosponsors (5)

- Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-4] (D-CA), 2025-02-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Valadao, David G. [R-CA-22] (R-CA), 2025-02-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Panetta, Jimmy [D-CA-19] (D-CA), 2025-02-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-21] (D-CA), 2025-02-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-7] (D-CA), 2025-02-18T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- More options and payments for seasonally flooded farms: benefit, medium. If passed, the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program would add a new type of habitat agreement for seasonally flooded working lands. USDA, with your State technical committee, could enroll other farm land not now eligible when it is critical to fix declining wetland habitat. If your cropland sup…

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- 119-hr-1105: Disaster Resiliency and Coverage Act of 2025
- 119-hr-842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
- 119-hr-2192: Air America Act of 2025
- 119-hr-2725: Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-1420 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1420)

## Related
- [119-hr-4206: CONNECT for Health Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4206)
- [119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1262)
- [119-hr-1105: Disaster Resiliency and Coverage Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1105)
- [119-hr-842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage A…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-842)
- [119-hr-2192: Air America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2192)
- [119-hr-2725: Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2725)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1420 (as of 2026-07-29).