US Congress House Bill 2201 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)
Status: Introduced on May 23 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-06-25 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Rural Economic Vitalization Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) or the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) accept and terminate any grazing permit or lease that is waived by a grazing permittee or lessee; and (2) not issue any new grazing permit or lease within the grazing allotment covered by the retired permit or lease, and ensure a permanent end to livestock grazing on such allotment. Directs the appropriate Secretary, if a grazing allotment covered by a waived permit or lease is also covered by another permit or lease that is not waived, to reduce the level of commercial livestock grazing on the grazing allotment to reflect such waiver. Deems a permittee or lessee who waives a grazing permit or lease to have waived any claim to all range developments on the associated grazing allotment.

Rural Economic Vitalization Act

Rep. Adam Smith [D-WA]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]	Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]
Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]	Rep. Rick Larsen [D-WA]
Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA]	Rep. Jim McDermott [D-WA]	Rep. James Moran [D-VA]
Rep. David Price [D-NC]	Rep. Adam Schiff [D-CA]	Rep. Carol Shea-Porter [D-NH]	Rep. Henry Waxman [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-06-25	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
2013-06-04	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
2013-05-23	House	Referred to House Agriculture
2013-05-23	House	Referred to House Natural Resources
2013-05-23	House	Referred 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.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/2201/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr2201/BILLS-113hr2201ih.pdf