To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to prohibit treatment of certain non-native, non-indigenous hoofstock born within the borders of the United States as an endangered species, a threatened species, an essential experimental population, or a nonessential experimental population.

Bill: 116-hr-4208
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Yoho, Ted S. [R-FL-3]
Introduced: 2019-08-23
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Endangered and threatened species

Mammals
Latest action: action_date: 2019-08-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-08-23
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill revises endangered or threatened species requirements with respect to hoofstock born within the borders of the United States. Under this bill, <i>hoofstock</i> means barasingha, red lechwe, Arabian oryx, Eld's deer, Grevy's zebra, gaur, or banteng.</p> <p>The bill prohibits such hoofstock from being treated as endangered species, threatened species, essential experimental populations, or nonessential experimental populations.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4208 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES August 23, 2019 Mr. Yoho introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to prohibit treatment of certain non-native, non-indigenous hoofstock born within the borders of the United States as an endangered species, a threatened species, an essential experimental population, or a nonessential experimental population.

1. Prohibition of treatment of certain hoofstock as endangered species, threatened species, essential experimental population, or nonessential experimental population Section 3 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ( 16 U.S.C. 1532 ) is amended— (1) by inserting before the first sentence the following: (a) In general ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (b) Limitation (1) A covered hoofstock born within the borders of the United States shall not be treated as an endangered species, a threatened species, an essential experimental population, or a nonessential experimental population under this Act. (2) In this subsection the term covered hoofstock means any barasingha, red lechwe, Arabian oryx, Eld’s deer, Grevy’s zebra, gaur, or banteng. .