Pandemic Fishery Disaster Response Act

Bill: 116-hr-7167
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Golden, Jared F. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2020-06-11
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Latest action: action_date: 2020-06-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-06-11
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Pandemic Fishery Disaster Response Act</b></p> <p>This bill authorizes the Department of Commerce to provide disaster relief for commercial fishery failures that occur because of a pandemic.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7167 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 11, 2020 Mr. Golden (for himself and Mr. Graves of Louisiana ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to add a pandemic as a potential cause of a fishery resource disaster.

1. Short tittle This Act may be cited as the Pandemic Fishery Disaster Response Act . 2. Transition to sustainable fisheries Section 312(a)(1) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act ( 16 U.S.C. 1861a(a)(1) ) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (B) by striking ; or and inserting ; ; (2) in subparagraph (C) by striking . and inserting ; or ; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (D) a pandemic, as such term is defined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. .