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H.R. 2773 - Recovering America’s Wildlife Act of 2022
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Rules Committee Print 117-47 PDF XML
Showing the text of H.R. 2773, as ordered reported by the Committee on Natural Resources, with modifications.
(as reported)
H. Rept. 117-359 PDF
Report from the Committee on Natural Resources to accompany H.R. 2773
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Showing the differences between H.R. 2773, as reported, and Rules Committee Print 117-47.
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Rule Information
COMMITTEE ACTION:
REPORTED BY A RECORD VOTE of 9-4 on Monday, June 13, 2022.
FLOOR ACTION ON H. RES. 1170:
Agreed to by record vote of 218-204, after agreeing to the previous question by record vote of 216-199, on June 14, 2022.
MANAGERS: DeSaulnier/Reschenthaler
1. Structured rule for H.R. 2543.
2. Provides one hour of general debate on the bill equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Financial Services.
3. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
4. Provides that an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 117-49, modified by the amendment printed in part A of the Rules Committee report, shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read.
5. Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended.
6. Provides that following debate, each further amendment printed in part B of the Rules Committee report not earlier considered as part of amendments en bloc pursuant to section 3 shall be considered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, may be withdrawn by the proponent at any time before the question is put thereon, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question.
7.Section 3 provides that at any time after debate the chair of the Committee on Financial Services or her designee may offer amendments en bloc consisting of further amendments printed in part B of the Rules Committee report not earlier disposed of. Amendments en bloc shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Financial Services or their designees, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question.
8. Waives all points of order against the amendments printed in part B of the report and amendments en bloc described in section 3 of the resolution.
9. Provides one motion to recommit.
10. Structured rule for H.R. 2773.
11. Provides one hour of general debate on the bill equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Natural Resources.
12. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
13. Provides that an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 117-47, modified by the amendment printed in part C of the Rules Committee report, shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read.
14. Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended.
15. Provides that following debate, each further amendment printed in part D of the Rules Committee report not earlier considered as part of amendments en bloc pursuant to section 7 shall be considered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, may be withdrawn by the proponent at any time before the question is put thereon, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question.
16. Section 7 provides that at any time after debate the chair of the Committee on Natural Resources or his designee may offer amendments en bloc consisting of further amendments printed in part D of the Rules Committee report not earlier disposed of. Amendments en bloc shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Natural Resources or their designees, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question.
17. Waives all points of order against the amendments printed in part D of the report and amendments en bloc described in section 7 of the resolution.
18. Provides one motion to recommit.
19. Structured rule for H.R. 7606.
20. Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Agriculture.
21. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
22. Provides that an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 117-50, modified by the amendment printed in part E of the Rules Committee report, shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read.
23. Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended.
24. Makes in order only those further amendments to H.R. 7606 printed in part F of the Rules Committee report. Each such amendment may be offered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question.
25. Waives all points of order against the amendments printed in part F of the report.
26. Provides one motion to recommit.
27. Provides that House Resolution 188, agreed to March 8, 2021 (as most recently amended by House Resolution 1153, agreed to June 8, 2022), is amended by striking “June 17, 2022” each place it appears and inserting (in each instance) “June 22, 2022”.
Amendments (click headers to sort)
| # | Version # | Sponsor(s) | Party | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Version 1 | Kildee (MI), Meijer (MI) | Bi-Partisan | Expands conservation activities eligible for funding under the Endangered Species Recovery and Habitat Conservation Legacy Fund to include efforts to manage, control, and prevent invasive species and disease. | Made in Order |
| 2 | Version 2 | Grijalva (AZ) | Democrat | MANAGER’S AMENDMENT Revised Makes technical corrections. | Considered as Adopted |
| 3 | Version 1 | Nadler (NY), Blumenauer (OR) | Democrat | Prohibits the use of body-gripping traps within the National Wildlife Refuge System with the exception of Native American tribes, refuges in Alaska, and federal agencies to manage invasive species or to protect endangered species. | Submitted |
| 4 | Version 1 | Evans (PA), Fitzpatrick (PA), Blunt Rochester (DE) | Bi-Partisan | Reauthorizes the Delaware River Basin Restoration Program and increases the federal cost share for certain grant projects. | Submitted |
| 5 | Version 3 | Norman (SC) | Republican | Revised Allows Funds apportioned from the Subaccount to be used for programs or research pertaining to training and employing veterans in marine and coastal conservation activities, including coral restoration and rehabilitation, related to the protection and conservation of a species of greatest conservation need and the habitat of such species. | Revised |
| 6 | Version 1 | Stauber (MN) | Republican | Allows the Secretary flexibility in creating specific conservation plans for Endangered Species Act listing. | Submitted |
| 7 | Version 1 | Griffith (VA) | Republican | Directs the Forest Service to study and report on volunteer hours served, the deferred maintenance backlog, and any barriers to increasing volunteer participation, with respect to each National Forest. | Submitted |
| 8 | Version 2 | Bentz (OR) | Republican | Revised Imposes a 1.85% administrative spending cap on portions of Title III. | Made in Order |
| 9 | Version 2 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Revised Instructs the Secretary of Interior to report on contracts, subcontracts, and grant money allocated to or received by minority-serving educational institutions and minority-owned businesses. | Made in Order |
| 10 | Version 1 | Fulcher (ID) | Republican | Adds forest management activities, including mechanical thinning and prescribed burning, where the primary purpose of such activity is to modify, improve, enhance, or create wildlife habitat or reduce the risk of damage or destruction to wildlife habitat due to wildfires, insects, or disease, that improve listed species’ habitats, to the list of acceptable projects under RAWA. | Submitted |
| 11 | Version 1 | Herrell (NM), Pfluger (TX) | Republican | Prevents the use of funds to list a species as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act if the species is covered by a Candidate Conservation Agreement or Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances and the population of the species has increased or stabilized. | Submitted |
| 12 | Version 1 | Fulcher (ID) | Republican | Prohibits any new federal land acquisitions funded in whole or part by this program. | Submitted |
| 13 | Version 1 | Beyer (VA) | Democrat | Withdrawn Adds the text of the Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act, which establishes a national wildlife corridors program to ensure wildlife can continue to migrate and move across their habitats undisturbed. Establishes a publicly available wildlife corridor database along with a grant program to encourage the preservation of corridors. | Withdrawn |
| 14 | Version 1 | Soto (FL), San Nicolas (GU), Salazar (FL), Bishop, Sanford (GA), Lawson (FL), Strickland (WA), Huffman (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Creates a new NOAA-administered grant program, the Don Young Veterans Advancing Conservation Grant Program, to support nonprofit groups that hire, retrain, and redeploy veterans and military-trained combat divers to work alongside scientists and researchers on coastal, Great Lakes, and underwater conservation missions. | Submitted |
| 15 | Version 3 | Scott, David (GA) | Democrat | Revised Allows funds to be used for conservation and restoration of native pollinator species. | Made in Order |
| 16 | Version 1 | Moore, Blake (UT), Budd (NC) | Republican | Strikes title III, Endangered Species Recovery and Habitat Conservation Legacy Fund, from the underlying bill. | Submitted |
| 17 | Version 1 | Larsen, Rick (WA), Brownley (CA), Strickland (WA), Schrier (WA), Jayapal (WA) | Democrat | Expands existing programs and provides new authorities for the protection of marine mammal species from vessel traffic. | Submitted |
| 18 | Version 2 | Schrier (WA) | Democrat | Revised Allows funds to be used for conservation infrastructure projects that protect and conserve habitat for species of greatest conservation need. | Made in Order |
| 19 | Version 2 | Leger Fernandez (NM) | Democrat | Revised Allows funds from the Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Subaccount to be used for training and education for agricultural producers, such as farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners to help protect high priority habitat for species of greatest conservation need. | Revised |
| 20 | Version 1 | Rosendale (MT) | Republican | Requires the Secretary of the Interior to reissue the final rule entitled, "Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Population of Grizzly Bears From the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife", no later than 180 days after enactment of this Act. | Submitted |
| 21 | Version 1 | Tonko (NY), Smith, Christopher (NJ), Nadler (NY), Kim (NJ), Suozzi (NY), Torres, Ritchie (NY), Pallone (NJ), Jones, Mondaire (NY), Gottheimer (NJ) | Bi-Partisan | Adds the "New York-New Jersey Watershed Protection Act", which coordinates and funds restoration and protection activities that promote healthy fish and wildlife habitats, improve water quality, use nature-based methods, increase public access and engagement, and support monitoring and scientific research in the New York-New Jersey Watershed. | Submitted |
| 22 | Version 1 | Rosendale (MT) | Republican | Amends the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act and releases the applicable Secretary from having to reinitiate consultation under section 7 of the Endangered Species Act. | Submitted |
| 23 | Version 1 | Tiffany, Thomas (WI) | Republican | Late Requires 0.5% of the funds from this bill be provided to the Department of Interior’s Office of Inspector General to oversee this program. | Made in Order |
| 24 | Version 1 | Tiffany, Thomas (WI), Boebert, Lauren (CO) | Republican | Late Requires the Secretary of Interior to reissue the final rule entitled ‘‘Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing the Gray Wolf From the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife’’ published on November 3, 2020. | Submitted |
| 25 | Version 1 | Westerman (AR) | Republican | Late Makes the funding in the bill subject to appropriations and creates a 7-year sunset to allow Congress to revisit the program’s efficacy. Strikes funding for Title III. | Submitted |
| 26 | Version 1 | Dingell (MI), Tonko (NY) | Democrat | Late Reauthorizes funding for the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act for 5 years, from fiscal years 2022 through 2027, at the current funding levels. | Submitted |
| 27 | Version 1 | Budd (NC) | Republican | Late Limits mandatory spending under the bill to amounts received from natural resource or environmental-related violation revenue. Authorizes appropriations (discretionary spending) up to the limits specified in the underlying text. | Submitted |
| 28 | Version 2 | Kirkpatrick (AZ) | Democrat | Late Revised Allows non-profit organizations to be eligible to receive competitive grant funds through the Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Subaccount. | Made in Order |
| 29 | Version 1 | Cherfilus-McCormick (FL) | Democrat | Late Encourages the use of innovative technologies in wildlife management and conservation. | Made in Order |
| 30 | Version 1 | Johnson, Mike (LA) | Republican | Late Modifies the boundary of the Red River Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana. | Submitted |
| 31 | Version 1 | Perry (PA) | Republican | Late Removes Migratory Bird Treaty protections from black vultures that an individual reasonably believes to be endangering any real or personal property. | Submitted |
| 32 | Version 1 | Perry (PA) | Republican | SUBSTITUTE Late Strikes the text of RAWA and replaces it with HR 5550, the Endangered Species Management Self-Determination Act. | Submitted |
| 33 | Version 1 | Thompson, Mike (CA) | Democrat | Late Provides the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with the authority to collect civil damages from responsible parties for intentional injuries to all living and non-living resources within refuge lands and waters. Redirects fines formerly deposited in the general treasury to be deposited in the agency’s Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Fund to directly address those specific damages. | Submitted |
| 34 | Version 2 | Norton (DC) | Democrat | Late Revised Treats the District of Columbia as a state under the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act. | Revised |
| 35 | Version 1 | Quigley (IL) | Democrat | Late Directs the Administrator of General Services to adapt policies to reduce bird fatalities resulting from collisions with public buildings. | Submitted |
| 36 | Version 1 | Quigley (IL) | Democrat | Late Directs the Chief of Law Enforcement at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to hire, train, and deploy 50 new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service law enforcement attaches at U.S. embassies and consulates in countries known or suspected to be a source of illegal wildlife trafficking. | Submitted |
Committee Votes
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 232
Motion by Mr. Cole to add language to the rule that would eliminate the ability to vote remotely by proxy. Defeated: 4–8
Majority Member
Vote
Mrs. Torres
Nay
Mr. Perlmutter
Nay
Mr. Raskin
Nay
Ms. Scanlon
Nay
Mr. Morelle
Nay
Mr. DeSaulnier
Nay
Ms. Ross
Nay
Mr. Neguse
No Vote
Mr. McGovern, Chairman
Nay
Minority Member
Vote
Mr. Cole
Yea
Mr. Burgess
Yea
Mr. Reschenthaler
Yea
Mrs. Fischbach
Yea
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 235
Motion by Mr. Burgess to amend the rule to H.R. 2773 to make in order amendment #25, offered by Rep. Westerman (AR), which makes the funding in the bill subject to appropriations, creates a 7-year sunset to allow Congress to revisit the program’s efficacy, and strikes funding for Title III. Defeated: 4–9
Majority Member
Vote
Mrs. Torres
Nay
Mr. Perlmutter
Nay
Mr. Raskin
Nay
Ms. Scanlon
Nay
Mr. Morelle
Nay
Mr. DeSaulnier
Nay
Ms. Ross
Nay
Mr. Neguse
Nay
Mr. McGovern, Chairman
Nay
Minority Member
Vote
Mr. Cole
Yea
Mr. Burgess
Yea
Mr. Reschenthaler
Yea
Mrs. Fischbach
Yea
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 238
Motion by Mrs. Fischbach to amend the rule to H.R. 2773 to make in order amendment #16, offered by Rep. Moore (UT), which strikes title III, Endangered Species Recovery and Habitat Conservation Legacy Fund, from the underlying bill. Defeated: 4–9
Majority Member
Vote
Mrs. Torres
Nay
Mr. Perlmutter
Nay
Mr. Raskin
Nay
Ms. Scanlon
Nay
Mr. Morelle
Nay
Mr. DeSaulnier
Nay
Ms. Ross
Nay
Mr. Neguse
Nay
Mr. McGovern, Chairman
Nay
Minority Member
Vote
Mr. Cole
Yea
Mr. Burgess
Yea
Mr. Reschenthaler
Yea
Mrs. Fischbach
Yea
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 239
Motion by Ms. Scanlon to report the rule. Adopted: 9–4
Majority Member
Vote
Mrs. Torres
Yea
Mr. Perlmutter
Yea
Mr. Raskin
Yea
Ms. Scanlon
Yea
Mr. Morelle
Yea
Mr. DeSaulnier
Yea
Ms. Ross
Yea
Mr. Neguse
Yea
Mr. McGovern, Chairman
Yea
Minority Member
Vote
Mr. Cole
Nay
Mr. Burgess
Nay
Mr. Reschenthaler
Nay
Mrs. Fischbach
Nay