US Congress House Bill 717 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: Introduced on January 27 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2018-02-15 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 421.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Listing Reform Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to allow the Department of the Interior or the Department of Commerce, as appropriate, to prioritize the consideration of petitions to list a species as endangered or threatened other than in the order in which the petitions are received. The appropriate department may not give general priority to petitions to add species to the list of endangered or threatened species over petitions to remove a species from the list. The deadline for the appropriate department to decide on whether or not a petition to list or remove a species should be granted is changed from within 12 months to as expeditiously as possible. The appropriate department is given the authority to preclude the listing of a species as threatened due to the likelihood of significant, cumulative economic effects that would result from such listing or from the likely resulting designation of critical habitat of the species. Once a petition is precluded due to those economic effects, the appropriate department may not reconsider that finding unless the department: (1) determines there is endangerment of extinction of the species; or (2) receives a new petition to add the species to the list that includes an analyses concluding that alternative actions are possible other than those resulting in significant, cumulative economic effects.

Listing Reform Act

Rep. Pete Olson [R-TX]	Rep. Michael Burgess [R-TX]	Rep. Louie Gohmert [R-TX]	Rep. Brian Babin [R-TX]
Rep. Paul Gosar [R-AZ]	Rep. Greg Gianforte [R-MT]	Rep. Pete Sessions [R-TX]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-15	House	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 421.
2018-02-15	House	Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-560.
2017-10-04	House	Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 22 - 13.
2017-10-04	House	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2017-07-19	House	Committee Hearings Held.
2017-01-27	House	Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
2017-01-27	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/717/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr717/BILLS-115hr717ih.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr717/BILLS-115hr717rh.pdf