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119-hr-3268119th Congress

Federal Bird Safe Buildings Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Representative Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9]

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Summary

Bird-safe public buildings

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This bill would direct the General Services Administration to incorporate design features, operational practices, and lighting strategies into federal buildings to cut bird collision deaths.

  • Federal building managers and agencies would have to use the GSA design guide when constructing, acquiring, or substantially altering a building facade that is more than 50 percent changed. GSA must certify to Congress each year, by October 1, that the guide is used for qualifying buildings.
  • The design guide would cover steps across design, operation, and maintenance to reduce bird fatalities and would be updated regularly. GSA may draw best practices from federal experts, conservation groups, and green building systems.
  • The bill requires GSA to send the guide to agencies with independent leasing authority and to report annually on compliance, agency-head building collision assessments where practicable, and recommendations to lower risks.
  • Explicit exemptions apply to properties listed or eligible for the National Register of Historic Places and to the White House, the Supreme Court building, the United States Capitol, and buildings on Capitol grounds.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Annual bird-safety reports on federal buildings

If enacted, the General Services Administration would certify to Congress each year, by October 1, that it used the bird-safety guide for applicable projects. Acting through the Commissioner of Public Buildings, the agency would gather compliance information. By October 1, it would also report practicable counts of bird collisions at agency head buildings and give ways to reduce risk.

Historic and landmark sites get exemptions

If enacted, some places would be exempt from these bird-safety rules. The exemptions cover sites on or eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, the White House, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Capitol and its grounds. Those sites would not have to follow the guide or add bird-safe features.

Bird-safe design rules for federal buildings

If enacted, the General Services Administration (GSA) would have to use bird-safe features when it builds, buys, or heavily alters federal public buildings. The rule would apply when more than 50% of a building’s facade is substantially changed, and only to the extent practicable. GSA would create and regularly update a design guide covering design, construction, lighting, and maintenance steps to cut collisions. GSA could draw on federal, nonprofit, and green-building experts, and would share the guide with agencies that lease space.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9]

VA • R

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5]

    IL • D

    Sponsored 5/8/2025

  • Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5]

    NJ • D

    Sponsored 8/29/2025

  • Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]

    NV • D

    Sponsored 9/2/2025

  • Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-VA-7]

    VA • D

    Sponsored 10/21/2025

  • Rep. Pappas, Chris [D-NH-1]

    NH • D

    Sponsored 11/17/2025

  • Rep. Thanedar, Shri [D-MI-13]

    MI • D

    Sponsored 6/2/2026

Roll Call Votes

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