A bill to prohibit the use of funds to Federal agencies to establish a panel, task force, advisory committee, or other effort to challenge the scientific consensus on climate change, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-s-729
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2019-03-07
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Advisory bodies

Air quality

Appropriations

Climate change and greenhouse gases

Environmental assessment, monitoring, research

Executive agency funding and structure
Latest action: action_date: 2019-03-11
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 35.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-03-07
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill prohibits the use of funds made available to federal agencies (including the Executive Office of the President) to establish or operate a panel, task force, other advisory committee, or other effort intended to challenge the scientific consensus on climate change.</p>

tv_txt: II Calendar No. 35 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 729 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 7, 2019 Mr. Schumer (for himself, Mr. Carper , Mr. Reed , Mr. Van Hollen , Mr. Whitehouse , Mr. Markey , Mr. Schatz , Ms. Smith , Mr. Blumenthal , Mrs. Shaheen , Mr. Booker , Ms. Stabenow , Ms. Klobuchar , Ms. Hassan , Mr. Merkley , and Mrs. Feinstein ) introduced the following bill; which was read the first time March 11, 2019 Read the second time and placed on the calendar A BILL To prohibit the use of funds to Federal agencies to establish a panel, task force, advisory committee, or other effort to challenge the scientific consensus on climate change, and for other purposes.

1. Prohibition on use of funds to challenge scientific consensus on climate change No amounts appropriated or otherwise made available to a Federal agency (as defined in section 1004 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act ( 42 U.S.C. 6903 ) and including the Executive Office of the President) may be used to establish or operate a panel, task force, other advisory committee, or other effort intended to challenge the scientific consensus on climate change, as presented in the assessment required under section 106 of the Global Change Research Act of 1990 ( 15 U.S.C. 2936 ).

March 11, 2019 Read the second time and placed on the calendar