US Congress House Bill 2738 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-2)
Status: Introduced on June 11 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-06-12 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Highways Bettering the Economy and Environment Pollinator Protection Act This bill authorizes as an eligible project cost for the construction of a federal-aid highway the cost of improving habitat and forage for pollinators (i.e., bees, birds, bats, Monarch and other butterflies) on rights-of-way adjacent to such highways. The Department of Transportation, in conjunction with willing states, shall carry out programs that encourage: integrated vegetation management practices on roadsides and other transportation rights-of-way, including reduced mowing; the development of habitat and forage for pollinators through planting of native forbs and grasses, including noninvasive, native milkweed species; research and demonstration projects on economic and environmental benefits and best practices for integrated vegetation management, reduced mowing, and planting of native forbs and grasses for pollinator habitat, forage, and migratory way stations for Monarch butterflies and other migrating pollinators; and participation in such activities by representatives of transportation landscape management, pollinator health, agriculture, horticulture, and other affected communities. Federal funds may be used for the provision of habitat, forage, and migratory way stations for Monarch butterflies, other native pollinators, and honey bees that is related to a federally-funded highway project.

Highways Bettering the Economy and Environment Pollinator Protection Act

Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Jeff Denham [R-CA]	Rep. Jackie Speier [D-CA]	Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]
Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]	Rep. Jeff Fortenberry [R-NE]	Rep. Marc Veasey [D-TX]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]
Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D-OH]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]	Rep. John Garamendi [D-CA]
Rep. Elizabeth Esty [D-CT]	Rep. Brendan Boyle [D-PA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-06-12	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
2015-06-11	House	Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
2015-06-11	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2738/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr2738/BILLS-114hr2738ih.pdf