Salmon FISH Act
Latest action · Mar 17, 2022 Subcommittee Hearings Held.
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.
- IntroducedJan 25, 2022
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Salmon Focused Investments in Sustainable Habitats Act or the Salmon FISH Act
This bill addresses identifying, restoring, and protecting salmon conservation areas and salmon strongholds in the United States.
Specifically, the bill
- requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to jointly issue guidance on the process and biological criteria required to identify salmon conservation areas and salmon strongholds; and
- directs the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in collaboration with NOAA to provide grants to certain entities to protect or maintain salmon conservation area or salmon stronghold features and projects that are focused on conservation and restoration within a salmon conservation area or stronghold, including to restore or maintain ecological functions and processes related to salmon productivity and diversity at watershed or subwatershed scales.
Cosponsors 5
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 25, 2022 to Feb 9, 2022; 4 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Alan S. Lowenthal | Original | Jan 25, 2022 |
| D-MO | Emanuel Cleaver | Original | Jan 25, 2022 |
| D-CA | Mike Thompson | Original | Jan 25, 2022 |
| D-OR | Suzanne Bonamici | Original | Jan 25, 2022 |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Feb 9, 2022 |
Committees 3
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 Jan 25, 2022 |
| Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee | Referred Jan 28, 2022Hearings Mar 17, 2022 | |
| Federal Lands Subcommittee | Referred Jan 28, 2022 | |
| Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee | Referred Jan 28, 2022 | |
| Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee | Referred Jan 28, 2022 | |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Jan 25, 2022 |
| Forestry and Horticulture Subcommittee | Referred Feb 8, 2022 | |
| House | Foreign Affairs Committee | Referred Jan 25, 2022 |
Actions 8
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 17, 2022Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- Feb 8, 2022Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
- Jan 28, 2022Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
- Jan 28, 2022Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
- Jan 28, 2022Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.
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
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 168, no. 16, January 25, 2022, page H302.
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. 117-15 | INVESTING IN AMERICA: REAUTHORIZATION OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION87 pages | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | Apr 28, 2021 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require the identification of salmon conservation areas and salmon strongholds, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Salmon FISH Act
- Salmon Focused Investments in Sustainable Habitats Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Air quality
- Aquatic ecology
- Canada
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Congressional oversight
- Dams and canals
- Department of Commerce
- Department of the Interior
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Environmental regulatory procedures
- Environmental technology
- Federal-Indian relations
- Fishes
- Forests, forestry, trees
- Government information and archives
- Indian lands and resources rights
- Intergovernmental relations
- Lakes and rivers
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Mining
- Performance measurement
- Pollution liability
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Research administration and funding
- Roads and highways
- Water use and supply
- Watersheds
- Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 25, 2022Introduced 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.
