US Congress Senate Bill 2560 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on June 26 2014 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2014-07-16 - Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife. Hearings held.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

United States Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Protection Act - Authorizes the 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. Requires amounts recovered as a result of such destruction, loss, or injury to 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

Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-07-16	Senate	Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife. Hearings held.
2014-06-26	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4162)
2014-06-26	Senate	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4160-4162)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/2560/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s2560/BILLS-113s2560is.pdf