HR 5131 United States House · 119th Congress

Public Lands Military Readiness Act of 2025

HR 5131 extends military land withdrawals for training at key facilities until 2051, including Fort Greely and Fort Wainwright in Alaska, Fort Bliss's McGregor Range in New Mexico, and Fort Irwin in California. It corrects specific land area descriptions for these ranges (e.g., adjusting acreage for McGregor Range from 608,385 to 605,401 acres and Fort Irwin from 110,000 to 117,710 acres). The bill directly affects military training operations by maintaining current land use without new restrictions or requirements. It makes no policy changes beyond extending existing withdrawals and fixing technical land description errors.

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Sep 2025

Committee Review

Dec 2025

House Passage

Dec 2025

Senate Passage

President

Introduced Sep 4, 2025 Last action Dec 10, 2025

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Introduced in House → Engrossed in House · 4 edits · Dec 9, 2025

MODERATE

The Engrossed version of HR 5131 primarily updates the names of Alaska military training areas from 'Fort Greely and Fort Wainwright training ranges' to 'Yukon Training Area, Donnelly Training Area East, and Donnelly Training Area West,' reflecting current designations for those lands. It also makes minor clarifying edits such as adding 'acres' after acreage figures, fixing the capitalization of 'McGregor,' updating a map reference date, and removing the '25-year' qualifier from the section heading.

SCOPE

The Alaska lands covered by the withdrawal extension were renamed from 'Fort Greely and Fort Wainwright training ranges' to 'Yukon Training Area, Donnelly Training Area East, and Donnelly Training Area West,' updating the legal references to match current designations of those military training areas.

TECHNICAL

Added the word 'acres' after acreage figures in both the McGregor Range correction (605,401 acres) and the Fort Irwin correction (117,710 acres) for clarity.

Updated the Fort Irwin map reference from 'National Training Center-Proposed Withdrawal of Public Lands for Training Purposes, dated September 21, 2000' to 'Fort Irwin Withdrawal dated February 28, 2025,' pointing to a newer and more specific map.

Fixed capitalization of 'Mcgregor' to 'McGregor' throughout the bill and changed singular 'land' to plural 'lands' in several section headings.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the House by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

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Committee

Amendments

Dec 10, 2025

Committee

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

upper

Dec 9, 2025

Introduced

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5091-5092)

lower

Dec 9, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5091-5092)

lower

Dec 9, 2025

Introduced

Mr. Crank moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

lower

Dec 9, 2025

Lower · Passed

Committee on Armed Services discharged.

lower

Dec 9, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-397, Part I.

lower

Nov 20, 2025

Lower · Passed

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

lower

Nov 20, 2025

Lower · Passed

Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged

lower

Sep 18, 2025

Lower · Passed

Subcommittee Hearings Held

lower

Sep 11, 2025

Committee

Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.

lower

Sep 4, 2025

Committee

Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

lower

Sep 4, 2025

Introduced

Introduced in House

lower

1 primary · 1 co-sponsor