US Congress House Bill 573 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 27 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-01-28 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Estuary Urgent Needs Priority Program Act This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to revise the National Estuary Program by requiring the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make competitive awards to address urgent and challenging issues that threaten the economic and ecological well-being of coastal areas, including extensive seagrass habitat losses, recurring harmful algae blooms, unusual marine mammal mortalities, invasive exotic species, and jellyfish proliferation limiting community access to water during peak tourism seasons. The EPA must give priority to national estuary programs that are not part of the Geographic Programs as described in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014.

Estuary Urgent Needs Priority Program Act

Rep. Bill Posey [R-FL]

Rep. Patrick Murphy [D-FL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-01-28	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
2015-01-27	House	Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
2015-01-27	House	Introduced in House

HB944 (Related) 2015-06-02 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
SB1523 (Related) 2016-05-20 - Became Public Law No: 114-162. (TXT | PDF)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/573/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr573/BILLS-114hr573ih.pdf