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(text: CR H3497-3498)"}},"senate":{"status":"voice","date":"2025-12-16","vote":null,"how":"voice_vote","words":"Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote."}},"president":{"status":"vetoed","date":"2025-12-29"},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"The Chair directed the Clerk to notify the Senate of the action of the House.","date":"2026-01-08"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2025-01-03","stage":"Introduced in House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill reduces payments that communities within the Arkansas River Valley must pay to the Bureau of Reclamation for the construction of the Arkansas Valley Conduit, a pipeline in Colorado for delivering water from the Pueblo Reservoir to such communities. Specifically, it removes interest payments and extends the repayment period to 100 years."}],"words":59},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Amends Public Law 87-590 to change the repayment terms and operating responsibilities in the contract for the Arkansas Valley Conduit in Colorado.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/131/text/enr#H22407EC0F3574B749B48AF435A628985:~:text=2.%20Arkansas%20Valley%20Conduit"}]},"core_areas":["Arkansas Valley Conduit repayment contract terms","Arkansas Valley Conduit operations and maintenance responsibility"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Requires the contract for the Arkansas Valley Conduit to provide for payment equal to 35 percent of the cost of the conduit, notwithstanding the reclamation laws or any other provision of that Act.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/131/text/enr#H22407EC0F3574B749B48AF435A628985:~:text=2.%20Arkansas%20Valley%20Conduit"}},{"text":"Provides that contract payments consist of funding provided during construction by any entity other than the Secretary.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/131/text/enr#H22407EC0F3574B749B48AF435A628985:~:text=2.%20Arkansas%20Valley%20Conduit"}},{"text":"Provides that, based on a demonstration of financial hardship as determined by the Secretary, the balance is repaid over not more than 75 years with simple interest at 50 percent of the rate determined by the Secretary of the Treasury.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/131/text/enr#H22407EC0F3574B749B48AF435A628985:~:text=2.%20Arkansas%20Valley%20Conduit"}},{"text":"Requires the contract to provide for the contracting parties to assume the care, operation, maintenance, and replacement of the conduit.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/131/text/enr#H22407EC0F3574B749B48AF435A628985:~:text=2.%20Arkansas%20Valley%20Conduit"}},{"text":"Strikes the existing wording in subsection (c) of the first section of Public Law 87-590 that set a 35 percent payment for the Arkansas Valley Conduit, and replaces it with a new subsection (d).","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/131/text/enr#H22407EC0F3574B749B48AF435A628985:~:text=2.%20Arkansas%20Valley%20Conduit"}},{"text":"Provides that the Act may be cited as the \"Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act\".","cite":{"label":"Sec. 1","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/131/text/enr#HD75BC186205E4058A96AB3FBD880758B:~:text=1.%20Short%20title"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Enrolled Bill","date":null,"rule":"enrolled","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/131/text/enr"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-03","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/131","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/131/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/119-hr-131.png","v":"6da4f8bf887f","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 131, 119th Congress: Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act. House: 248 Yea, 177 Nay; a vote on overriding the President's veto. Senate: voice vote. Outcome: Vetoed, 29 Dec 2025."}}