Actually, Hoeven's was the second. Sen. Jon Tester Montana introduced the first $60 million dollar monitoring Bill giving money to agencies.
https://wildlife.org/legislation-would-steer-60m-to-fight-cwd/
Legislators don't write Bills but in Testers case he has an advisory board who help craft legislation.
https://www.tester.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/pr-1333/
Ryan Busse
Ben Lamb
Randy Newberg
Land Tawney
Tester's Bill never got any traction. If a person overlays Testers Bill and Hoevens, they are the same Bill but with research added into Hoeven's.
The agencies love you guys. They want to grow into more government.