H.R. 5063 Congress 119 session
Safe Beaches, Safe Swimmers Act
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.
Status
- Introduced
- Committee
- Floor vote
- Passed
- Enacted
Awaiting a floor vote — last recorded action August 27, 2026
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 673.
Passage likelihood
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State-level impact
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Official actions
- Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 673.
- Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-772.
- Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-772.
- Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
- Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged
- Subcommittee Hearings Held
- Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
- Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
- Introduced in House
- Introduced in House