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H.R. 5063

Safe Beaches, Safe Swimmers Act

Natural Resources Committee · Rep. Jennifer Kiggans (R-VA)

Official summary (Congressional Research Service, Reported to House): Safe Beaches, Safe Swimmers Act

This bill establishes requirements to ensure an adequate staff of lifeguards at swimming areas and swimming beaches managed by the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, or the Bureau of Reclamation that are typically monitored by federally employed lifeguards during normal seasonal operating hours.

If the Department of the Interior determines there is a staffing shortage of lifeguards that will leave a swimming area or beach unmonitored by federally employed lifeguards during normal seasonal operating hours, Interior may enter into an agreement with local government agencies to provide lifeguards. Interior must ensure that a local government agency providing lifeguard services is reimbursed for all reasonable costs it incurred in carrying out the agreement.

The bill does not apply to short-term staffing shortages caused by temporary absences, such as an employee taking annual or sick leave.

Passed House with amendment (voice vote) 14 September 2026

Record as of 15 September 2026 — the most recent action in the official record. Status can lag; each step below carries its own date.

  1. 15 September 2026 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  2. 14 September 2026 Passed House with amendment (voice vote)
  3. 4 more actions
    1. 14 September 2026 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
    2. 14 September 2026 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5063.
    3. 14 September 2026 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5563-5564)
    4. 14 September 2026 Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
  4. 27 August 2026 Reported by committee
  5. 27 August 2026 Placed on calendar (House)
  6. 22 July 2026 Discharged from committee (House)
  7. 3 more actions
    1. 22 July 2026 Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
    2. 22 July 2026 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
    3. 2 December 2025 Subcommittee Hearings Held
  8. 25 November 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands
  9. 29 August 2025 Referred to committee
  10. 29 August 2025 Introduced in House
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