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Chugach Region Lands Study Act

Bill: 115-hr-211
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Chugach Region Lands Study Act

 This bill requires the Department of the Interior, in coordination with the Department of Agriculture, to identify at least 500,000 acres of economically viable federal land that may be exchanged with the Chugach Alaska Corporation. Acre-for-acre exchange of identified federal land for certain Chugach Alaska Corporation land is deemed to be in the public interest.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-04-26
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2017-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
EFFECT Act

Bill: 115-hr-212
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Federal-Indian relations
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Expediting Funding For Efficient Contracting Tribes Act or the EFFECT Act

 This bill amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to permit an Indian tribe to submit a request for expedited review of the tribe's proposed annual funding agreement to the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives. If the committees assent to the request, the Department of the Interior must waive part or all of the review period for the agreement and set or amend the effective date of the agreement, as specified by the committees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2017-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
To remove reversionary clauses on property owned by the municipality of Anchorage, Alaska.

Bill: 115-hr-213
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Economic development
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to convey, without consideration, to the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, the reversionary interests of the United States in and to specified nonfederal land in Anchorage for the purpose of unencumbering its title and enabling its economic development. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
American Fisheries Advisory Committee Act

Bill: 115-hr-214
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Food industry and services
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marketing and advertising
Research administration and funding
Seafood

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

American Fisheries Advisory Committee Act

 
This bill amends the Saltonstall-Kennedy Act to direct the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)to establish the American Fisheries Advisory Committee.
 
NOAA must establish five regions within the committee.The committee must consist of members chosen regionally and across all sectors of the fishing industry.Additionally, the committee must: (1)identify the needs of the fishing industry, (2)develop grant proposals to fund projects that address the industry needs, (3)review grant applications, and (4)provide NOAA with grant applicants for approval.
 
NOAA must not approve a grant application unless the application is selected for funding by the committee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
American Indian Empowerment Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-215
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

American Indian Empowerment Act of 2017

 
 This bill requires the Department of the Interior, upon the request of an Indian tribe, to transfer land held in trust for the tribe to the tribe as restricted fee tribal land. (Restricted fee tribal land is land that is owned by a tribe and has restrictions against alienation and taxation.)
 
Tribes may lease, or grant an easement or right-of-way on, restricted fee land for any period of time without Interior's review and approval.
 
Tribal laws that establish a system of land tenure governing the use of restricted fee land have precedence over federal laws and regulations governing the use of such land, except the restriction against the land's alienation and taxation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-10-25
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2017-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Second Division Memorial Modification Act

Bill: 115-hr-216
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Afghanistan
Asia
Conflicts and wars
District of Columbia
Iraq
Middle East
Military history
Monuments and memorials
North Korea
South Korea
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Second Division Memorial Modification Act

 
This bill authorizes the Second Indianhead Division Association, Inc. Scholarship and Memorials Foundation to place three benches honoring the members of the Second Infantry Division killed in the Cold War in Korea, the War in Iraq, and the War in Afghanistan on the Second Division Memorial located in President's Park in the District of Columbia. 
 
No federal funds may be used for these modifications or augmentations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act

Bill: 115-hr-217
Sponsor: Rep. Black, Diane [R-TN-6]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Congressional oversight
Family planning and birth control
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to permit the Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) to provide federal family planning grants only to entities that certify that, during the period of the grant, they will not perform abortions or provide funds to entities that perform abortions. Exceptions are made for abortions where: (1) the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest; or (2) a physician certifies that the woman suffered from a physical disorder, injury, or illness that would place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed, including a condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy. Hospitals are exempted unless they provide funds to non-hospital entities that perform abortions.
 
HHS must include in an annual report: (1) information on grantees who performed abortions under the exceptions, and (2) a list of entities to which grant funds are made available. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend the National Marine Sanctuaries Act to prescribe an additional requirement for the designation of marine sanctuaries off the coast of Alaska, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-222
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Alaska
Congressional oversight
Department of Commerce
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 
This bill amends the National Marine Sanctuaries Act to prohibit the Department of Commerce from designating as a national marine sanctuary an area of the marine environment off the coast of Alaska seaward of the high tide line unless an Act of Congress requires Commerce to make the designation and prescribes the boundaries of the designated area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce from authorizing commercial finfish aquaculture operations in the Exclusive Economic Zone except in accordance with a law authorizing such action.

Bill: 115-hr-223
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Aquaculture
Licensing and registrations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 
This bill prohibits the Department of the Interior and the Department of Commerce from issuing a permit or in any other way authorizing commercial finfish aquaculture operations in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone, except in accordance with a law enacted after enactment of this bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Polar Bear Conservation and Fairness Act

Bill: 115-hr-224
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Canada
Endangered and threatened species
Hunting and fishing
Licensing and registrations
Mammals
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Polar Bear Conservation and Fairness Act

 
This bill amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to direct the Department of the Interior to issue a permit for the importation of a polar bear part (other than an internal organ) from a bear taken in a sport hunt in Canada to any permit applicant who has submitted proof that the polar bear was: (1) legally harvested by the applicant before the May 15, 2008, listing of the polar bear as threatened, and (2) harvested from an approved polar bear population. Interior must issue these permits without regard to limits on importing marine mammals with depleted populations. 

action_date: 2018-06-12
text: 

Polar Bear Conservation and Fairness Act

 
This bill amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to direct the Department of the Interior to issue a permit for the importation of a polar bear part (other than an internal organ) from a bear taken in a sport hunt in Canada to a permit applicant who has submitted proof that the polar bear was: (1) legally harvested by the applicant before the May 15, 2008, listing of the polar bear as threatened, and (2) harvested from an approved polar bear population. Interior must issue these permits without regard to limits on importing marine mammals with depleted populations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-06-12
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 570.
action_date: 2018-06-12
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-735.
action_date: 2018-06-12
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-735.
action_date: 2018-05-16
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2018-05-16
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2018-05-16
text: Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans Discharged.
action_date: 2018-05-16
text: Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2017-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2017-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Restoration of the U.S.-Russia Polar Bear Conservation Fund Act

Bill: 115-hr-225
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Canada
Endangered and threatened species
Hunting and fishing
Mammals
Outdoor recreation
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Restoration of the U.S.-Russia Polar Bear Conservation Fund Act
 
 
This bill amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow the importation of polar bear parts taken legally in sport hunts in Canada.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2017-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
African Elephant Conservation and Legal Ivory Possession Act

Bill: 115-hr-226
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Africa
Art, artists, authorship
Crimes against animals and natural resources
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of the Interior
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Endangered and threatened species
Foreign aid and international relief
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Hunting and fishing
International law and treaties
Law enforcement officers
Mammals
Materials
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Trade restrictions
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

African Elephant Conservation and Legal Ivory Possession Act

 
This bill reauthorizes the African Elephant Conservation Act (AECA) through FY2022. 
 
Ivory may be imported or exported under the AECA and the Endangered Species Act of 1973 if: (1) the raw ivory or worked ivory is solely for a museum; (2) the raw ivory or worked ivory was lawfully importable into the United States on February 24, 2014, regardless of when it was acquired; or (3) the worked ivory was previously lawfully possessed in the United States.
 
The Department of the Interior may station one U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service law enforcement officer in the primary U.S. diplomatic or consular post in each African country that has significant population of African elephants to assist local wildlife rangers in protecting the elephants and facilitating the apprehension of individuals who illegally kill them or assist in killing them.
 
The President may embargo any products from a country if it is a significant transit or destination point for illegal ivory trade.
 
 This bill authorizes: (1) commerce in African elephant ivory or in products containing African elephant ivory that have been lawfully imported or crafted in the United States; and (2) the importation of a sport-hunted African elephant trophy if the trophy was taken from certain elephants populations that at the time were not necessarily threatened with extinction, but may have become so unless trade was closely controlled. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Multinational Species Conservation Funds Reauthorization Act

Bill: 115-hr-227
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Africa
American Samoa
Asia
Caribbean area
Department of the Interior
Endangered and threatened species
Executive agency funding and structure
Guam
International organizations and cooperation
Mammals
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Reptiles
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Multinational Species Conservation Funds Reauthorization Act

 
This bill reauthorizes the African Elephant Conservation Act, the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994, the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997, the Great Ape Conservation Fund, and the Marine Turtle Conservation Fund through FY2022.
 
This bill amends the Great Ape Conservation Act of 2000 to authorize Department of the Interior to award a multi-year grant to carry out a project that is an effective, long-term conservation strategy for great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, orangutans, or gibbons) and their habitats.
 
Interior is required to convene a panel of experts to identify the greatest needs and priorities for the conservation of great apes within a year and every five years thereafter. Current law authorizes Interior to convene a panel to consider the greatest conservation needs every two years. The panel is required to consider relevant great ape conservation plans or strategies. 
 
This bill amends the Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004 to make a wildlife management authority of a U.S. territory eligible for financial assistance for marine turtle conservation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act

Bill: 115-hr-229
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act

 
This bill amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to permit the Native residents of each of the Native villages of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell, Alaska, to organize as urban corporations and to receive certain settlement land. 
 
These urban corporations may establish a settlement trust to promote the health, education, and welfare of the trust beneficiaries, and preserve the Native heritage and culture of their communities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
SALE Act

Bill: 115-hr-230
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Government trust funds
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Shee Atika Land Entitlement Act or the SALE Act

 
This bill declares that consideration received by the urban Native corporation of Shee Atika under the agreement between Shee Atika and the United States must be treated as the receipt of land or interest in land pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act or as cash to equalize the values of properties exchanged pursuant to that Act. (Under the Act, these considerations are not taxed.)
 
Shee Atika may elect to accept payment from the Department of Agriculture for Cube Cove lands into an account that may be used to purchase property sold at public sale by a federal agency. Purchases made through that account must be considered to be conveyances under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Canyon Village Land Conveyance Act

Bill: 115-hr-231
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Canyon Village Land Conveyance Act

 
This bill amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to require the Department of the Interior to convey to Kian Tr'ee Corporation, an Alaska Native village corporation, for the Native village of Canyon Village, the surface estate of up to 6,400 acres of public land selected by the corporation.
 Interior must convey an equal acreage of subsurface estate to Doyon Limited, an Alaska Native regional corporation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-06
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2017-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House