Title: Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act and Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act District of Columbia Equality Act of 2020
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act and Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act District of Columbia Equality Act of 2020
This bill treats the District of Columbia as a state with respect to receiving federal funds for management and restoration of approved wildlife projects and for fish restoration and management projects.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8963 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8963

    To amend the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act and the 
  Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act to treat the District of 
 Columbia the same as a State for purposes of such Acts, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 14, 2020

  Ms. Norton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act and the 
  Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act to treat the District of 
 Columbia the same as a State for purposes of such Acts, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Pittman-Robertson Wildlife 
Restoration Act and Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act District 
of Columbia Equality Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA UNDER PITTMAN-ROBERTSON 
              WILDLIFE RESTORATION ACT AND DINGELL-JOHNSON SPORT FISH 
              RESTORATION ACT.

    (a) Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act.--The Pittman-
Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 669 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) in section 2, by redesignating paragraphs (6) through 
        (11) as paragraphs (7) through (12), and by inserting after 
        paragraph (5) the following:
            ``(6) the term `State' includes the District of 
        Columbia;''; and
            (2) in section 4--
                    (A) by amending paragraph (1) of subsection (d) to 
                read as follows:
            ``(1) The Secretary of the Interior shall apportion from 
        the Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Account a sum equal 
        to not more than one-fourth of 1 percent thereof to each of 
        Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth 
        of the Northern Mariana Islands.''; and
                    (B) in subsection (e)(5), by striking ``the 
                District of Columbia,''.
    (b) Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act.--The Dingell-
Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 777 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) in section 2--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph 
                (2);
                    (B) by striking the period at the end of paragraph 
                (3) and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) the term `State' includes the District of 
        Columbia.''; and
            (2) in section 12--
                    (A) by striking ``the Mayor of the District of 
                Columbia,'';
                    (B) by striking ``the District of Columbia,'' the 
                second and third place it appears; and
                    (C) by striking ``for the District of Columbia one-
                third of 1 per centum,''.
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