HR 730 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

PESTT Act

Introduced Feb 14, 2013 Originated House Sponsor Mick Mulvaney R-SC

Latest action · Mar 1, 2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture.

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 14, 2013
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Pest Elimination Services Transparency and Terminology or the PESTT Act - Amends the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1988, with respect to nuisance animal control activities and agreements of the Department of Agriculture (USDA), to define "urban rodent control" (excepted from such activities) as efforts to directly control any mammal in the order Rodentia in a location that is not an airport or in a rural area.

Requires the Comptroller General to submit a report to Congress on activities carried out by the Wildlife Services program of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service that: (1) identifies activities that can be carried out by private sector entities, (2) prioritizes those vital to the protection of public health and safety and agricultural production and that can be performed by such entities, and (3) recommends ways to avoid duplication by the Wildlife Services program and the private sector.

Cosponsors 33

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 14, 2013 to May 7, 2013; 11 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-GA	Austin Scott	Original	Feb 14, 2013
R-MI	Bill Huizenga	Original	Feb 14, 2013
R-KY	Brett Guthrie	Original	Feb 14, 2013
R-WA	Doc Hastings	Original	Feb 14, 2013
R-SC	Jeff Duncan	Original	Feb 14, 2013
R-CA	John Campbell	Original	Feb 14, 2013
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio	Original	Feb 14, 2013
R-NY	Richard L. Hanna	Original	Feb 14, 2013
R-TN	Stephen Lee Fincher	Original	Feb 14, 2013
R-IA	Steve King	Original	Feb 14, 2013
R-FL	Thomas J. Rooney	Original	Feb 14, 2013
D-OR	Kurt Schrader		Feb 15, 2013
R-NY	Chris Collins		Feb 25, 2013
R-GA	Tom Graves		Feb 27, 2013
D-NY	William L. Owens		Mar 5, 2013
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews		Mar 20, 2013
R-FL	Steve Southerland II		Mar 20, 2013
R-IL	Adam Kinzinger		Apr 11, 2013
R-MO	Billy Long		Apr 11, 2013
R-MI	Dan Benishek		Apr 11, 2013
D-CA	Judy Chu		Apr 11, 2013
R-MI	Kerry L. Bentivolio		Apr 11, 2013
R-GA	Lynn A. Westmoreland		Apr 11, 2013
R-TX	Pete Sessions		Apr 11, 2013
R-OH	Steve Stivers		Apr 11, 2013
R-MO	Vicky Hartzler		Apr 11, 2013
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Apr 11, 2013
R-KY	Andy Barr		Apr 15, 2013
R-WI	F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.		Apr 15, 2013
R-TX	Ted Poe		Apr 17, 2013
R-OH	Patrick J. Tiberi		Apr 23, 2013
R-TN	John J. Duncan, Jr.		May 7, 2013
R-AZ	Paul A. Gosar		May 7, 2013

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Agriculture Committee	Referred Feb 14, 2013
	Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology Subcommittee	Referred Mar 1, 2013

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 1, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture.
Feb 14, 2013Introduced in House
Feb 14, 2013Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

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.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 14. ``To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces.'' Article I, Section 8, Clause 18. ``To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.'' This bill provides rules for the Government, specifically, for the Wildlife Services program of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. This law is necessary and proper for carrying out the power to make rules for the proper operation of a division of the government of the United States.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H549.

Titles 3

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To define urban rodent control for purposes of clarifying the control of nuisance mammals and birds carried out by the Wildlife Services program of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and by the private sector, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: PESTT Act; Pest Elimination Services Transparency and Terminology Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Feb 14, 2013Introduced in House

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