US Congress Senate Bill 2637 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on March 3 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-03-03 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Pending: Senate Environment And Public Works Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

A bill to amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to clarify the treatment of authentic Alaska Native articles of handicraft containing nonedible migratory bird parts, and for other purposes. This bill amends the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to provide that nothing in such Act prohibits possessing, selling, bartering, purchasing, shipping, and transporting any authentic Alaska Native handicraft, clothing or art on the basis that it contains a non-edible migratory bird part, so long as the bird was not taken in a wasteful manner.

A bill to amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to clarify the treatment of authentic Alaska Native articles of handicraft containing nonedible migratory bird parts, and for other purposes.

Sen. Dan Sullivan [R-AK]

Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R-AK]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-03	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

HB1729 (Related) 2015-04-20 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2637/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s2637/BILLS-114s2637is.pdf