Buffalo Tract Protection Act
Latest action · Dec 17, 2019 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 350.
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, 2019
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Buffalo Tract Protection Act
This bill withdraws 4,288 acres of land administered by the Bureau of Land Management and identified as Tract A, Tract B, Tract C, and Tract D in Placitas, New Mexico, from
- location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and
- disposition under the mineral leasing, mineral materials, and geothermal leasing laws.
Any conveyance of the surface estate of the federal land must require a reservation of the mineral estate to the United States.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Feb 14, 2019.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NM | Tom Udall | Original | Feb 14, 2019 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Energy and Natural Resources Committee | Referred Feb 14, 2019Markup Dec 12, 2019Reported Dec 17, 2019 |
| Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee | Hearings May 14, 2019 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 17, 2019Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
- Dec 17, 2019Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 350.
- Dec 12, 2019Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
- May 14, 2019Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-323.
- Feb 14, 2019Introduced in Senate
- Feb 14, 2019Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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.
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Feb 21, 2020S. 526, Buffalo Tract Protection ActAs reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on December 17, 2019
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Hrg. 116-323 | PENDING LEGISLATION285 pages | Energy and Natural Resources Committee | May 14, 2019 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| R41057 | Small Business Administration Microloan Program | Report | Mar 30, 2022 |
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 390 | Buffalo Tract Protection Act | Reintroduction of | Feb 15, 2017 |
| HR 2640 | Buffalo Tract Protection Act | Identical bill | Sep 8, 2020 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill 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 Senate
- 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.
- Dec 17, 2019Reported to Senate
- Feb 14, 2019Introduced in Senate
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.
