US Congress House Bill 2772 (Prior Session Legislation)

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December 1 2011 - Committee Hearings Held.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Saving Fishing Jobs Act of 2011 - Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, with respect to multispecies fishing permits in the Gulf of Mexico, to remove a provision limiting the eligible signers (a group of fishermen constituting more than 50% of the permit holders, or holding more than 50% of the allocation in the fishery) of a petition to the Secretary of Commerce requesting that the relevant Regional Fishery Management Council or Councils be authorized to initiate the development of a limited access privilege program to only those participants who have substantially fished the species proposed to be included in the program. Sets forth procedures for: (1) certifying a fishery management plan (or amendment) requested by a percentage of eligible fisherman to establish a limited access privilege program to harvest in fisheries under the authority of the New England, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, or Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; (2) terminating such a program established after enactment of this Act for a fishery under the authority of such Councils on the first date the number of eligible fishermen in the fishery in a year is at least 15% less than in the year preceding the program's establishment; and (3) collecting fees, including observer costs, pursuant to modified fee-setting requirements for such programs.

Saving Fishing Jobs Act of 2011

Rep Runyan, Jon	Rep Adams, Sandy	Rep Bilirakis, Gus M.	Rep Bishop, Timothy H.
Rep Frank, Barney	Rep Guinta, Frank C.	Rep Jones, Walter B., Jr.	Rep LoBiondo, Frank A.
Rep McIntyre, Mike	Rep Posey, Bill	Rep Rivera, David	Rep Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana
Rep Southerland, Steve II

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-12-01	House	Committee Hearings Held.
2011-08-01	House	Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

HB1646 (Related) 2011-12-01 - Committee Hearings Held.
SB1678 (Related) 2011-10-11 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HN02772:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr2772ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr2772ih.pdf