US Congress House Bill 4408 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on April 19 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-07-10 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Readiness Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Amends the Sikes Act (conservation programs on federal lands) to allow funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) to be obligated for funding an endowment for the costs of natural resource maintenance and improvement activities on military installations and state-owned National Guard installations. Allows the recipient of funds provided by the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the military department concerned under a natural resources cooperative agreement to use such funds to satisfy any matching funds or cost-sharing requirement of the Departments of Agriculture (USDA), Commerce, or the Interior.

To amend the Sikes Act to promote the use of cooperative agreements under such Act for land management related to Department of Defense installations and to amend title 10, United States Code, to facilitate interagency cooperation in conservation programs.

Rep. Madeleine Bordallo [D-GU]

Rep. C.A. Ruppersberger [D-MD]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-07-10	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
2012-04-24	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
2012-04-19	House	Referred to House Natural Resources
2012-04-19	House	Referred to House Armed Services
2012-04-19	House	Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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/112th-congress/house-bill/4408/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr4408/BILLS-112hr4408ih.pdf