LGBTQ+ Panic Defense Prohibition Act of 2025

House Bill

H.R. 4197

119th Congress

LGBTQ+ Panic Defense Prohibition Act of 2025

In Committee

Introduced:Jul 2, 2025

Primary Sponsor

Ron Estes

Representative

Republican

KS-4

Cosponsors

3

Quick Stats

Policy Area

Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary

This bill would reauthorize and expand the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration program, which provides funding for community-based projects to manage and maintain forests. The goal is to address issues like invasive species, wildfire risk, and watershed health.

Latest Action

Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry.

SponsorRon Estes (R-KS)

Introduced7/2/2025

StatusReferred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

ChamberHouse

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LGBTQ+ Panic Defense Prohibition Act of 2025

This bill would reauthorize and expand the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration program, which provides funding for community-based projects to manage and maintain forests. The goal is to address issues like invasive species, wildfire risk, and watershed

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This bill would reauthorize and expand the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration program, which provides funding for community-based projects to manage and maintain forests. The goal is to address issues like invasive species, wildfire risk, and watershed health.

Bill Number: 4197
Sponsor: Ron Estes (R-KS)
Introduced: 7/2/2025
Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Policy Area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

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Fact Sheet

Title: LGBTQ+ Panic Defense Prohibition Act of 2025
Bill Number: 4197
Sponsor: Ron Estes (R-KS)
Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced: 7/2/2025
Summary: This bill would reauthorize and expand the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration program, which provides funding for community-based projects to manage and maintain forests. The goal is to address issues like invasive species, wildfire risk, and watershed health.

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Plain-English explanation of this bill

This bill would reauthorize and expand the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration program, which provides funding for community-based projects to manage and maintain forests. The goal is to address issues like invasive species, wildfire risk, and watershed health.

Last updated: 12/30/2025

Official Summary

Congressional Research Service summary

Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Reauthorization Act of 2023 This bill reauthorizes and expands the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration program, which helps fund collaborative and community-based forest management. To be eligible for support, a collaborative forest landscape restoration proposal must describe plans to prevent, remediate, or control invasions of pathogens. For each proposal nominated for selection by a Forest Service regional office, the office must provide a federal government staffing plan for providing support to collaboratives. In selecting proposals, the Department of Agriculture must give special consideration to proposals that seek to <ul> <li> use innovative implementation mechanisms, including conservation finance agreements and good neighbor agreements;</li> <li>reduce the risk of uncharacteristic wildfire or increase ecological restoration activities within areas across land ownerships and within the wildland-urban interface; and</li> <li>enhance watershed health and drinking water sources.</li> </ul> The bill increases the number of proposals that may be funded during any fiscal year.

Key Points

Main provisions of the bill

Reauthorizes and expands the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration program, which provides funding for collaborative forest management projects.
Requires projects to address plans for preventing, remediating, or controlling invasive pathogens.
Gives priority to projects that use innovative implementation methods, reduce wildfire risk, or enhance watershed health.
Increases the number of projects that can be funded each year.

How This Impacts Americans

Potential effects on citizens and communities

This bill would benefit local communities, environmental groups, and government agencies involved in forest management. It would provide more resources for collaborative projects to improve the health and resilience of public and private forests across the country.

Policy Areas

Primary Policy Area

Public Lands and Natural Resources

Related Subjects

Ecology

Environmental technology

Fires

Forests, forestry, trees

Water quality

Watersheds

Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Scope & Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction Level

federal

Congressional Session

119th Congress

Citation Reference

4197, 119th Congress (2025). "LGBTQ+ Panic Defense Prohibition Act of 2025". Source: Voter's Right Platform. https://votersright.org/bills/118-hr-4197