Black Vulture Relief Act of 2024
Latest action · Dec 10, 2024 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 679.
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.
- IntroducedMar 8, 2023
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Black Vulture Relief Act of 2023
This bill allows livestock producers and their employees to take certain actions against black vultures to protect livestock. (Black vultures are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.)
Specifically, livestock producers and their employees may (1) take (i.e., capture, kill, disperse, or transport) a black vulture that they reasonably believe will cause death, injury, or destruction to livestock; or (2) in the course of taking or attempting to take the black vulture, cause injury to the bird.
Livestock producers and their employees must submit an annual report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) on black vultures taken under this bill. The FWS must make this reporting form available on its website.
Currently, the FWS has a permit process under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act for the taking of black vultures.
Cosponsors 41
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 8, 2023 to Jun 12, 2024; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-FL | Darren Soto | Original | Mar 8, 2023 |
| R-KY | Andy Barr | Apr 6, 2023 | |
| R-TX | August Pfluger | Apr 6, 2023 | |
| R-KY | James Comer | Apr 10, 2023 | |
| R-OK | Josh Brecheen | Apr 18, 2023 | |
| R-OH | Troy Balderson | Apr 27, 2023 | |
| R-AR | Eric A. "Rick" Crawford | May 23, 2023 | |
| R-OH | Max L. Miller | May 25, 2023 | |
| R-AR | Steve Womack | May 25, 2023 | |
| R-OK | Kevin Hern | Jun 16, 2023 | |
| R-GA | Rick W. Allen | Jul 12, 2023 | |
| R-MO | Jason Smith | Aug 1, 2023 | |
| R-PA | Scott Perry | Aug 4, 2023 | |
| R-OK | Stephanie I. Bice | Aug 4, 2023 | |
| R-MI | Jack Bergman | Aug 8, 2023 | |
| R-GA | Earl L. "Buddy" Carter | Aug 11, 2023 | |
| R-FL | Neal P. Dunn | Aug 11, 2023 | |
| R-SC | Nancy Mace | Aug 18, 2023 | |
| R-GA | A. Drew Ferguson IV | Aug 22, 2023 | |
| R-TN | Andrew Ogles | Aug 22, 2023 | |
| R-TX | Pete Sessions | Sep 12, 2023 | |
| R-FL | John H. Rutherford | Sep 13, 2023 | |
| R-KY | Brett Guthrie | Sep 14, 2023 | |
| R-OH | Brad R. Wenstrup | Sep 20, 2023 | |
| R-TN | Diana Harshbarger | Sep 26, 2023 | |
| R-NC | David Rouzer | Oct 12, 2023 | |
| R-PA | Lloyd Smucker | Nov 15, 2023 | |
| R-PA | Daniel Meuser | Nov 30, 2023 | |
| R-TN | David Kustoff | Dec 6, 2023 | |
| R-TX | Roger Williams | Jan 3, 2024 | |
| R-IN | Greg Pence | Jan 10, 2024 | |
| R-TX | Lance Gooden | Jan 11, 2024 | |
| R-FL | W. Gregory Steube | Jan 17, 2024 | |
| R-OK | Frank D. Lucas | Jan 29, 2024 | |
| R-WY | Harriet M. Hageman | Mar 22, 2024 | |
| R-MO | Mark Alford | Apr 23, 2024 | |
| R-IL | Mike Bost | Apr 23, 2024 | |
| R-IN | Larry Bucshon | May 7, 2024 | |
| R-TN | Tim Burchett | Jun 11, 2024 | |
| R-MS | Trent Kelly | Jun 11, 2024 | |
| R-MO | Sam Graves | Jun 12, 2024 |
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 Mar 8, 2023Discharged Jun 12, 2024Markup Jun 12, 2024Reported Dec 10, 2024 |
| Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee | Referred Apr 14, 2023Hearings Jul 27, 2023 |
Actions 9
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 10, 2024Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 118-832.
- Dec 10, 2024Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 679.
- Jun 12, 2024Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries Discharged
- Jun 12, 2024Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Jun 12, 2024Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 17 - 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
- Jul 16, 2024H.R. 1437, Black Vulture Relief Act of 2024As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on June 12, 2024
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 169, no. 44, March 8, 2023, page H1207.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| R48951 | Shark Conservation and Management in the United States | Report | Jul 15, 2026 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To authorize livestock producers and their employees to take black vultures in order to prevent death, injury, or destruction to livestock, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Black Vulture Relief Act of 2023
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Black Vulture Relief Act of 2024
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 10, 2024Reported in House
- Mar 8, 2023Introduced 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.
