US Congress House Bill 4558 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-4)
Status: Introduced on February 12 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-17 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

United States Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Protection Act This bill authorizes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to seek compensation from individuals or entities for costs or damages for destroying, causing the loss of, or injuring any living, nonliving, historical, cultural, or archaeological resource on land managed by the USFWS, or for causing the USFWS to carry out actions to prevent, minimize, or abate such destruction, loss, or injury. Amounts recovered as a result of such destruction, loss, or injury must be made available to USFWS to: (1) reimburse response costs and damage assessments; (2) restore, replace, or acquire the equivalent of a resource that was destroyed, lost, or injured; or (3) monitor and study those resources.

United States Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Protection Act

Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]	Rep. Ryan Costello [R-PA]	Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI]
Rep. Frank LoBiondo [R-NJ]	Rep. Robert Wittman [R-VA]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]
Rep. Carlos Curbelo [R-FL]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Kathy Castor [D-FL]
Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]	Rep. Dina Titus [D-NV]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Ed Perlmutter [D-CO]
Rep. Steve Israel [D-NY]	Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D-OH]	Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-17	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
2016-02-17	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
2016-02-12	House	Referred to House Appropriations
2016-02-12	House	Referred to House Natural Resources
2016-02-12	House	Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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.
2016-02-12	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4558/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr4558/BILLS-114hr4558ih.pdf