Endangered Species Transparency and Reasonableness Act
Latest action · Nov 27, 2018 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 815.
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.
- IntroducedJul 28, 2017
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Endangered Species Transparency and Reasonableness Act
This bill amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) to require the Department of the Interior or the Department of Commerce, as appropriate, to make publicly available on the Internet, subject to privacy or administrative limitations, the best scientific and commercial data available that are the bases for the determination of whether a species is an endangered species or a threatened species, including each proposed regulation for the listing of a species.
Cosponsors 22
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 28, 2017 to Jul 27, 2018; 5 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-MI | Bill Huizenga | Original | Jul 28, 2017 |
| R-CA | Doug LaMalfa | Original | Jul 28, 2017 |
| R-MT | Greg Gianforte | Original | Jul 28, 2017 |
| R-CO | Scott R. Tipton | Original | Jul 28, 2017 |
| R-NC | Walter B. Jones | Original | Jul 28, 2017 |
| R-MO | Blaine Luetkemeyer | Jul 12, 2018 | |
| R-UT | Chris Stewart | Jul 12, 2018 | |
| R-IN | Jim Banks | Jul 12, 2018 | |
| R-TX | Louie Gohmert | Jul 12, 2018 | |
| R-OK | Markwayne Mullin | Jul 12, 2018 | |
| R-SC | Ralph Norman | Jul 12, 2018 | |
| R-KS | Roger Marshall | Jul 12, 2018 | |
| R-KS | Ron Estes | Jul 12, 2018 | |
| R-NM | Stevan Pearce | Jul 12, 2018 | |
| R-AZ | Andy Biggs | Jul 17, 2018 | |
| R-KS | Lynn Jenkins | Jul 17, 2018 | |
| R-PA | Scott Perry | Jul 17, 2018 | |
| R-IN | Todd Rokita | Jul 19, 2018 | |
| R-WV | Alexander X. Mooney | Jul 25, 2018 | |
| R-PA | Glenn Thompson | Jul 26, 2018 | |
| R-PR | Jenniffer González-Colón | Jul 26, 2018 | |
| R-CA | Duncan Hunter | Jul 27, 2018 |
Committees 1
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 Jul 28, 2017Hearings Sep 26, 2018Markup Sep 27, 2018Reported Nov 27, 2018 |
Actions 7
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 27, 2018Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-1048.
- Nov 27, 2018Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 815.
- Sep 27, 2018Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Sep 27, 2018Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 19 - 12.
- Sep 26, 2018Committee Hearings Held.
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 estimate
- Nov 7, 2018H.R. 3608, Endangered Species Transparency and Reasonableness ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on September 27, 2018
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 128, July 28, 2017, page H6579.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 115-55 | LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON H.R. 6344, TO AMEND THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT OF 1973 TO ENCOURAGE VOLUNTARY CONSERVATION EFFORTS, "LOCAL ACT OF 2018"; ...... "PETITION ACT OF 2018"107 pages | Natural Resources Committee | Sep 26, 2018 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 5694 | Endangered Species Transparency and Reasonableness Act of 2020 | Reintroduced Bill | Jan 31, 2020 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require publication on the Internet of the basis for determinations that species are endangered species or threatened species, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Endangered Species Transparency and Reasonableness Act
- Short Titles as Reported to House
- Endangered Species Transparency and Reasonableness Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 27, 2018Reported in House
- Jul 28, 2017Introduced 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.
