Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Amendments of 2008
Latest action · Jul 15, 2008 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 881.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 13, 2007
- Passed HouseMar 19, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Amendments of 2008 - Amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to require the collection and updating of existing practices and procedures for rescuing and rehabilitating stranded or entangled (currently, only stranded) marine mammals. Authorizes entanglement response agreements. Deems authorized responders to be government employees for purposes of specified tort claims procedures provisions.
Renames the John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program as the John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue and Response Funding Program and revises provisions, including adding providing for stranding events requiring emergency assistance to the program's duties. Authorizes the program to be carried out through grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, or other agreements or arrangements.
Authorizes appropriations through FY2010 to carry out the Program. Revises provisions concerning administrative costs and expenses.
Establishes in the Treasury the John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue and Response Emergency Fund to provide for the recovery or treatment of marine mammals, the collection of data from living or dead stranded marine mammals for scientific research regarding marine mammal health, directly related facility operation costs, and stranding events requiring emergency assistance. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) enter into grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, or other appropriate agreements; and (2) solicit, accept, receive, hold, administer, and use gifts, devises, and bequests.
Limits support for a project under the provisions amended by this paragraph to $200,000 per year. (Current law limits support to 100,000 and makes no reference to the limit being per year.) Defines the term "emergency assistance" as: (1) assistance for a stranding event that is not an unusual mortality event, leads to an immediate increase in required costs in excess of regularly scheduled costs, may be cyclical or endemic, and may involve out-of-habitat animals; or (2) is determined by the Secretary to qualify for such assistance.
Authorizes appropriations through FY2010 to the Marine Mammal Unusual Mortality Event Fund.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Feb 13, 2007.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-SC | Henry E. Brown, Jr. | Original | Feb 13, 2007 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Feb 13, 2007 |
| Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee | Referred Feb 16, 2007 | |
| Senate | Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee | Referred Mar 20, 2007Markup May 15, 2008Reported Jul 15, 2008 |
Actions 13
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 15, 2008Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Inouye with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-421.
- Jul 15, 2008Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 881.
- May 15, 2008Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
- Mar 20, 2007Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
- Mar 19, 2007Mr. Grijalva moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- Mar 19, 2007Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2634-2635)
- Mar 19, 2007DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1006.
- Mar 19, 2007Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2634-2635)
- Mar 19, 2007Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Feb 16, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
- Feb 13, 2007Introduced in House
- Feb 13, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E336)
- Feb 13, 2007Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H2634, H2635Text printed H2634 | Raúl M. Grijalva D-AZ, Rob Bishop R-UT | Mar 19, 2007 |
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E336 | Don Young R-AK | Feb 13, 2007 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimates 2
- Jun 19, 2008H.R. 1006, Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Amendments of 2008<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on May 15, 2008</p>
- Jun 19, 2008H.R. 1006, Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Amendments of 2008Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on May 15, 2008
Titles 4
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the provisions of law relating to the John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Amendments of 2007
- Short Titles as Reported to Senate
- Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Amendments of 2008
- Short Titles as Passed House
- Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Amendments of 2007
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
- Animals
- Authorization
- Department of Commerce
- Economics and Public Finance
- Emergency Management
- Gifts
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government trust funds
- Grants-in-aid
- Law
- Liability (Law)
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Marine mammals
- Marine resources conservation
- Protection of animals
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Rescue work
Text 4
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 15, 2008Reported to Senate
- Mar 20, 2007Referred in Senate
- Mar 19, 2007Engrossed in House
- Feb 13, 2007Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
