Bill Text: TX SCR53 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Urging Congress to pass the Recovering America's Wildlife Act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (N/A - Dead) 2019-03-27 - Referred to Water & Rural Affairs [SCR53 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SCR53-Introduced.html
86R11376 GM-D | ||
By: Powell | S.C.R. No. 53 |
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WHEREAS, One-third of all wildlife and plant species in the | ||
United States are experiencing population decline, and of these | ||
more than 12,000 species in need of conservation, 1,310 are found in | ||
Texas; and | ||
WHEREAS, The federal government lacks a dedicated funding | ||
system to conserve at-risk wildlife, but the Recovering America's | ||
Wildlife Act would provide permanent federal revenue for each state | ||
to enact its own plan for stabilizing and recovering its species in | ||
decline; an annual block of $1.3 billion, financed by existing | ||
royalties from energy and mineral production on federal lands and | ||
waters and at no cost to taxpayers, would be dedicated to | ||
state-based conservation; and | ||
WHEREAS, With its passage, the Lone Star State would be | ||
eligible for $63 million annually to implement its Texas | ||
Conservation Action Plan, a preestablished strategy for conserving | ||
and improving the status of flora and fauna designated as Species of | ||
Greatest Conservation Need; administered by the Texas Parks and | ||
Wildlife Department, the funding would reduce the need for | ||
regulatory intervention by empowering wildlife managers and | ||
private landowners to address conservation issues at the local | ||
level; and | ||
WHEREAS, Texas would not only benefit ecologically, but also | ||
economically through job creation, improved regulatory certainty, | ||
increased nature tourism, and improved food production; and | ||
WHEREAS, Conservation of at-risk wildlife is vital to our | ||
future, and the passage of the Recovering America's Wildlife Act | ||
would represent a transformative step in preserving the character | ||
and beauty of our natural environment; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the 86th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
hereby respectfully urge the Congress of the United States to pass | ||
the Recovering America's Wildlife Act; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to | ||
the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of | ||
Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the | ||
members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that | ||
this resolution be entered in the Congressional Record as a | ||
memorial to the Congress of the United States of America. |