US Congress House Bill 5179 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: Introduced on November 19 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-10-09 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 457.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Authorizes the use of wildlife corridors on Indian land to provide habitat or ecological connectivity and allow for fish, wildlife, or plant movement on such land. Specifically, the bill permits an Indian tribe to nominate a corridor within the land of such tribe as a tribal wildlife corridor. The Department of the Interior must establish criteria for determining whether such a corridor qualifies as a tribal wildlife corridor, including criteria for restoring historical habitat. Interior must provide tribes with technical assistance to establish, manage, or expand a tribal wildlife corridor. Such assistance must include support with accessing wildlife data and working with private landowners to access programs for facilitating connectivity on nonfederal land. Additionally, Interior must (1) establish a program to award grants to tribes to increase connectivity through tribal wildlife corridors, and (2) consult with tribes to determine whether a tribal wildlife corridor may be expanded into public lands or otherwise benefit connectivity between public lands and such corridor. The bill also permits the Department of Agriculture to give priority under certain conservation programs to those projects that enhance connectivity by expanding a tribal wildlife corridor.

Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act of 2019

Rep. Ruben Gallego [D-AZ]

Rep. Debra Haaland [D-NM]

Sen. Ben Lujan [D-NM]

Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-10-09	House	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 457.
2020-10-09	House	Committee on Agriculture discharged.
2020-10-09	House	Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 116-559, Part I.
2020-01-29	House	Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States Discharged.
2020-01-29	House	Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife Discharged.
2020-01-29	House	Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 22 - 15.
2020-01-29	House	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2019-12-11	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
2019-12-06	House	Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.
2019-12-06	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
2019-11-19	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.
2019-11-19	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.
2019-11-19	House	Introduced in House

SB2891 (Same As) 2020-12-09 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 605.
HB2795 (Related) 2020-10-09 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 456.
SB1499 (Related) 2019-05-16 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
HB2 (Related) 2020-07-20 - Received in the Senate.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5179/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr5179/BILLS-116hr5179ih.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr5179/BILLS-116hr5179rh.pdf