US Congress House Bill 998 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Introduced on February 6 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-22 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Increases the percentage that states receive from sales, bonuses, royalties, and rentals for all public land or mineral deposits located in the states by eliminating administrative costs that are deducted from the share allocated to states under current law. The bill eliminates the 2% fee that the federal government currently deducts from a state's share to cover administrative or other costs. On request of a state, the Department of the Interior must convey to the state a property interest in the state's share of royalties and other payments from public land or mineral deposits located in the state. Interior must provide prompt notice of any such conveyance and the duty of the leaseholder to make direct payments to the state.

State Mineral Revenue Protection Act of 2019

Rep. Liz Cheney [R-WY]	Rep. Greg Gianforte [R-MT]	Rep. Paul Gosar [R-AZ]	Rep. Mark Meadows [R-NC]
Rep. Duncan Hunter [R-CA]	Rep. Dan Newhouse [R-WA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-22	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
2019-02-06	House	Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
2019-02-06	House	Introduced in House

SB218 (Related) 2019-01-24 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
HB4294 (Related) 2019-09-16 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/998/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr998/BILLS-116hr998ih.pdf