Title: American Sovereignty and Species Protection Act
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
American Sovereignty and Species Protection Act
This bill revises requirements governing the protection of endangered or threatened species.
Specifically, the bill limits such protection to native species.
In addition, the bill prohibits certain funding for endangered or threatened species from being used to purchase land in foreign countries.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5638 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5638

 To amend the Endangered Species Act to prevent a species that is not 
native to the United States from being listed as an endangered species 
    or a threatened species, to prohibit certain types of financial 
                  assistance, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 16, 2020

   Mr. Biggs (for himself, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Newhouse, Ms. Cheney, Mr. 
 Crawford, and Mr. Gianforte) introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Endangered Species Act to prevent a species that is not 
native to the United States from being listed as an endangered species 
    or a threatened species, to prohibit certain types of financial 
                  assistance, 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 ``American Sovereignty and Species 
Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON LISTING OF NOT NATIVE SPECIES AND PROVISION OF 
              CERTAIN FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.

    (a) Limitation on Listing of Not Native Species.--Section 4(a)(2) 
of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533(a)(2)) is amended 
by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(D) Not native species.--The Secretary may not 
                determine that a species is an endangered species or a 
                threatened species pursuant to section 4 if such 
                species is not native to the United States.''.
    (b) Limitation on Provision of Certain Financial Assistance.--
Section 8(a) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1537(a)) 
is amended--
            (1) by striking ``As a demonstration of'' and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(1) In general.--As a demonstration of'';
            (2) by striking ``(which includes, but is not limited to, 
        the acquisition, by lease or otherwise, of lands, waters, or 
        interests therein)''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Prohibition on purchasing land in a foreign 
        country.--No financial assistance provided under paragraph (1) 
        may be used to acquire, by lease or otherwise, lands, waters, 
        or other interests in a foreign country.''.
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