US Congress House Bill 3624 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: Introduced on July 28 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-09-01 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Pending: House Conservation and Forestry Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Rural Economic Vitalization Act This bill authorizes the voluntary waiver of permits or leases for grazing on federal lands managed by the Department of Agriculture or the Department of the Interior. If a permit or lease is waived by a permittee or lessee, the appropriate department must: accept and terminate the permit or lease, refrain from issuing any new grazing permit or lease within the grazing allotment covered by the permit or lease, and ensure a permanent end to livestock grazing on the allotment covered by the permit or lease. If an allotment covered by a waiver is also covered by another permit or lease that is not waived, the department must reduce the level of commercial livestock grazing on the allotment to reflect the waiver. The departments must not accept more than 100 grazing permits and leases per year, in the aggregate, under this authority.

Rural Economic Vitalization Act

Rep. Adam Smith [D-WA]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]	Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]
Rep. Pramila Jayapal [D-WA]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Denny Heck [D-WA]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]
Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA]	Rep. Adam Schiff [D-CA]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]	Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]
Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]	Rep. Rick Larsen [D-WA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-09-01	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
2017-08-15	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
2017-07-28	House	Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.
2017-07-28	House	Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.
2017-07-28	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/3624/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr3624/BILLS-115hr3624ih.pdf