Buffalo Tract Protection Act
Latest action · Sep 8, 2020 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 393.
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.
- IntroducedMay 9, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Buffalo Tract Protection Act
This bill withdraws specified Bureau of Land Management lands in Placitas, New Mexico, from (1) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (2) disposition under the mineral leasing, mineral materials, and geothermal leasing laws.
Any conveyance of the surface estate of such federal land shall require a reservation of the mineral estate to the United States.
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 9, 2019 to Aug 14, 2020; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NM | Ben Ray Luján | Original | May 9, 2019 |
| D-CA | Jerry McNerney | Aug 14, 2020 |
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 May 9, 2019Markup Jan 15, 2020Reported Sep 8, 2020 |
| Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee | Referred May 28, 2019Hearings Sep 19, 2019Discharged Jan 15, 2020 |
Actions 9
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 8, 2020Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 116-491.
- Sep 8, 2020Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 393.
- Jan 15, 2020Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Discharged.
- Jan 15, 2020Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Jan 15, 2020Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 20 - 13.
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
- Jun 4, 2020H.R. 2640, Buffalo Tract Protection ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on January 15, 2020
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 77, May 9, 2019, page H3681.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 526 | Buffalo Tract Protection Act | Identical bill | Dec 17, 2019 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To withdraw certain Bureau of Land Management land from mineral development.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Buffalo Tract Protection Act
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Buffalo Tract Protection Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 8, 2020Reported in House
- May 9, 2019Introduced 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.
