Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act of 2019
Latest action · Oct 9, 2020 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 457.
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.
- IntroducedNov 19, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act of 2019
This bill authorizes the use of wildlife corridors on Indian land to provide habitat or ecological connectivity and allow for fish, wildlife, or plant movement on such land.
Specifically, the bill permits an Indian tribe to nominate a corridor within the land of such tribe as a tribal wildlife corridor. The Department of the Interior must establish criteria for determining whether such a corridor qualifies as a tribal wildlife corridor, including criteria for restoring historical habitat.
Interior must provide tribes with technical assistance to establish, manage, or expand a tribal wildlife corridor. Such assistance must include support with accessing wildlife data and working with private landowners to access programs for facilitating connectivity on nonfederal land.
Additionally, Interior must (1) establish a program to award grants to tribes to increase connectivity through tribal wildlife corridors, and (2) consult with tribes to determine whether a tribal wildlife corridor may be expanded into public lands or otherwise benefit connectivity between public lands and such corridor.
The bill also permits the Department of Agriculture to give priority under certain conservation programs to those projects that enhance connectivity by expanding a tribal wildlife corridor.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Nov 19, 2019 to Aug 25, 2020; 2 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NM | Ben Ray Luján | Original | Nov 19, 2019 |
| D-NM | Debra A. Haaland | Original | Nov 19, 2019 |
| D-CA | Grace F. Napolitano | Aug 25, 2020 |
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 Nov 19, 2019Markup Jan 29, 2020Reported Oct 9, 2020 |
| Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee | Referred Dec 6, 2019Discharged Jan 29, 2020 | |
| Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee | Referred Dec 6, 2019Discharged Jan 29, 2020 | |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Nov 19, 2019Discharged Oct 9, 2020 |
| Forestry and Horticulture Subcommittee | Referred Dec 11, 2019 |
Actions 12
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 9, 2020Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 116-559, Part I.
- Oct 9, 2020Committee on Agriculture discharged.
- Oct 9, 2020Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 457.
- Jan 29, 2020Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Jan 29, 2020Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 22 - 15.
- Jan 29, 2020Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife Discharged.
- Jan 29, 2020Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States Discharged.
- Dec 11, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
- Dec 6, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
- Dec 6, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.
- Nov 19, 2019Introduced in House
- Nov 19, 2019Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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 1, 2020H.R. 5179, Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act of 2019As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on January 29, 2020
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 185, November 19, 2019, page H9058.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R48350 | Wildlife Corridors: Background and Issues for Congress | Report | Jan 13, 2025 |
Related bills 4
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 2 | Moving Forward Act | Related bill | Jul 20, 2020 |
| S 1499 | Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act of 2019 | Related bill | May 16, 2019 |
| HR 2795 | Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act of 2019 | Related bill | Oct 9, 2020 |
| S 2891 | Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act of 2019 | Identical bill | Dec 9, 2020 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require the Secretary of the Interior to establish Tribal Wildlife Corridors, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act of 2019
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act of 2019
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Native Americans.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 9, 2020Reported in House
- Nov 19, 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.
