Title: STOP Act of 2020
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
Stop Trump's Oil Payoff Act of 2020 or STOP Act of 2020
This bill prohibits the Department of the Interior from suspending, waiving, or reducing rents or royalties that the government receives for the production of certain mineral resources (e.g., fossil fuel) on leased public land, including royalties or net profit shares received from oil and gas exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6289 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6289

To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to repeal a provision relating to the 
suspension, waiver, or reduction of rents or royalties by the Secretary 
of the Interior to promote development or operation, to amend the Outer 
Continental Shelf Lands Act to limit the authority of the Secretary to 
 reduce or eliminate certain royalties and net profit shares, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 19, 2020

    Ms. Omar (for herself, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, and Ms. 
  Barragan) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to repeal a provision relating to the 
suspension, waiver, or reduction of rents or royalties by the Secretary 
of the Interior to promote development or operation, to amend the Outer 
Continental Shelf Lands Act to limit the authority of the Secretary to 
 reduce or eliminate certain royalties and net profit shares, 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 ``Stop Trump's Oil Payoff Act of 
2020'' or ``STOP Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF PROVISION OF THE MINERAL LEASING ACT RELATING TO THE 
              SUSPENSION, WAIVER, OR REDUCTION OF RENTS OR ROYALTIES BY 
              THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR TO PROMOTE DEVELOPMENT OR 
              OPERATION.

    (a) Repeal.--Section 39 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 209) 
is repealed.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Section 8721(b) of title 10, United States Code, is 
        amended by striking ``202-209'' and inserting ``202-208''.
            (2) Section 8735(a) of title 10, United States Code, is 
        amended by striking ``202-209'' and inserting ``202-208''.
            (3) Section 31(h) of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 
        188(h)) is amended by striking ``and the provisions of section 
        39 of this Act''.

SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON THE AUTHORITY OF THE SECRETARY TO REDUCE OR 
              ELIMINATE CERTAIN ROYALTIES AND NET PROFIT SHARES UNDER 
              THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF LANDS ACT.

    Section 8(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1337(a)) is amended by striking paragraph (3) and inserting the 
following:
            ``(3) Limitation on authority of secretary to reduce or 
        eliminate certain royalties or net profit shares.--
        Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Secretary 
        may not reduce or eliminate any royalty or net profit share 
        established under a lease.''.
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