ACCESS Act

Bill: 116-hr-1326
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-5]
Introduced: 2019-02-22 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Animal and plant health
Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Appropriations
Aquatic ecology
Birds
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Department of the Interior
Ecology
Endangered and threatened species
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal district courts
Firearms and explosives
Fishes
Government trust funds
Hunting and fishing
Intergovernmental relations
Lakes and rivers
Land use and conservation
Licensing and registrations
Mammals
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Photography and imaging
Research administration and funding
Solid waste and recycling
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Tax-exempt organizations
Television and film
User charges and fees
Water use and supply
Wetlands
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-22
text: 

Authorizing Critical Conservation and Enabling Sportsmen and Sportswomen Act or the ACCESS Act
 
 
This bill reauthorizes, authorizes, and establishes entities and activities for the conservation of fish and wildlife and opportunities for hunting and recreational shooting. 
 
 The bill 
 
 
authorizes the U.S. Geological Survey to conduct critical monitoring, scientific assessments, and research in support of the binational fisheries within the Great Lakes Basin between the United States and Canada, 
 
 facilitates the construction and expansion of public target ranges, and 
 
 requires the Departments of Agriculture and of the Interior to establish a fee schedule for commercial filming and still photography operations on federal land. 
 
 
The bill reauthorizes through FY2024 the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the Chesapeake Bay Program and the Chesapeake Bay Initiative. 
 
The bill establishes the National Fish Habitat Board and the Wildlife and Hunting Heritage Conservation Council Advisory Committee on wildlife and habitat conservation, hunting, and recreational shooting. 
 
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service-Wildlife Services shall
 
 
 allocate funds to support states and tribes in their efforts to implement management strategies to address chronic wasting disease, and 
 
make grants to support the expansion and acceleration of applied research on such disease. 
 
 
The bill requires a National Academy of Sciences study on the transmission of chronic wasting disease in any species within the family Cervidae (the deer family) in the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-03-26
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2019-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2019-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2019-03-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
action_date: 2019-03-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2019-02-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-02-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-02-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-02-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-02-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-02-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-22
text: Introduced in House