US Congress House Bill 866 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 24-0)
Status: Introduced on February 11 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-11-15 - Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Federal Land Freedom Act of 2015 This bill permits a state that has an established leasing, permitting, and regulatory program to: (1) declare to the Secretaries of the Interior, of Agriculture, and of Energy that it has either established or amended the program; and (2) seek to transfer to itself, and to implement, existing federal responsibilities for leasing, permitting, and regulating oil and natural gas development. Any state action to lease, permit, or regulate oil and gas exploration and development shall not be subject to, or considered, a federal action, a federal permit, or a federal license with respect to specified administrative and environmental laws and is therefore exempt from them. State-issued leases or permits must provide for: (1) the collection of royalties or other revenues in an amount equal to what would have been collected if the lease or permit had been federally issued, and (2) their deposit into the same federal account in which they would have been deposited if the lease or permit had been federally issued. A state may collect and retain lease or permit application processing fees.

Federal Land Freedom Act of 2015

Rep. Diane Black [R-TN]	Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN]	Rep. Stephen Fincher [R-TN]	Rep. Charles Fleischmann [R-TN]
Rep. Scott DesJarlais [R-TN]	Rep. John Duncan [R-TN]	Rep. David Roe [R-TN]	Rep. Robert Pittenger [R-NC]
Rep. Randy Weber [R-TX]	Rep. Ryan Zinke [R-MT]	Rep. Sam Graves [R-MO]	Rep. Pete Sessions [R-TX]
Rep. Blake Farenthold [R-TX]	Rep. Chris Stewart [R-UT]	Rep. Jeff Duncan [R-SC]	Rep. Jason Smith [R-MO]
Rep. Jason Chaffetz [R-UT]	Rep. Scott Tipton [R-CO]	Rep. Matt Salmon [R-AZ]	Rep. Mike Pompeo [R-KS]
Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]	Rep. Tim Huelskamp [R-KS]	Rep. Ted Poe [R-TX]	Rep. Paul Gosar [R-AZ]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-11-15	House	Subcommittee Hearings Held.
2015-03-16	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
2015-02-11	House	Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
2015-02-11	House	Introduced in House

SB490 (Related) 2015-02-12 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/866/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr866/BILLS-114hr866ih.pdf