MATCH Act of 2025

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Explore the details of House Bill 5781 MATCH Act of 2025 currently in Congress. Get insights into its purpose, current status, sponsors, and potential impact on undefined. Stay informed on legislative developments.

10/22/2025, 6:23 AM

Summary of Bill HR 5781

The MATCH Act of 2025, designated as H.R. 5781 in the 119th Congress and introduced on October 17, 2025, focuses on a legislative proposal aimed at a specific purpose. The bill's text includes pagination information and a text request related to the bill number and type. Additionally, it provides access to various formats of the bill, such as formatted text, PDF, and formatted XML, through different URLs. The last update to the context object was on October 22, 2025.

Congressional Summary of HR 5781

Making Access To Cleanup Happen Act of 2025 or the MATCH Act of 2025

This bill modifies the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) program to allow sponsors (i.e., states, local governments, and Indian tribes) to undertake certain emergency watershed protection measures prior to entering into a project agreement with USDA and count the costs as part of the sponsor's share of the project cost once an agreement with USDA is in place.

As background, USDA's EWP Program offers assistance to sponsors to carry out projects that help safeguard people and property from floods, drought, fires, windstorms, and other natural disasters that impair a watershed.

This bill requires USDA to identify a list of emergency watershed protection measures that a sponsor may incur costs for prior to entering into a project agreement with USDA under the EWP Program. USDA must develop a procedure, to be implemented at the state level, through which these entities may request additional emergency watershed protection measures. The cost of undertaking these additional measures may be incurred by a sponsor prior to entering into an agreement with USDA.

Further, USDA must consider pre-agreement costs incurred by a sponsor for undertaking the emergency watershed protection measures as meeting part of a sponsor's contribution towards the project costs.

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Current Status of Bill HR 5781

Bill HR 5781 is currently in the status of Bill Introduced since October 17, 2025. Bill HR 5781 was introduced during Congress 119 and was introduced to the House on October 17, 2025. Bill HR 5781's most recent activity was Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. as of October 17, 2025