US Congress Senate Bill 1230 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: Introduced on May 25 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-07-26 - Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Water Rights Protection Act of 2017 This bill prohibits the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture from: conditioning the issuance, renewal, amendment, or extension of any permit, approval, license, lease, allotment, easement, right-of-way, or other land use or occupancy agreement (permit) on the transfer of any water right to the United States or on any impairment of title granted or otherwise recognized under state law by federal or state action; requiring any water user (including a federally recognized Indian tribe) to apply for or acquire a water right in the name of the United States under state law as a condition of the issuance, renewal, amendment, or extension of such a permit; or conditioning or withholding the issuance, renewal, amendment, or extension of such a permit on limiting the date, time, quantity, location of diversion or pumping, or place of use of a state water right beyond any limitations under state water law, or on the modification of the terms and conditions of groundwater withdrawal, guidance and reporting procedures, or conservation and source protection measures established by a state. In developing any rule or similar federal action relating to the issuance, renewal, amendment, or extension of any permit, such departments: (1) shall recognize the longstanding water use authority of the states and coordinate with the states to ensure that any federal action is consistent with applicable state water law, and (2) shall not adversely affect the authority of a state in permitting the beneficial use of water or adjudicating water rights.

Water Rights Protection Act of 2017

Sen. John Barrasso [R-WY]	Sen. Jeff Flake [R-AZ]	Sen. Mike Crapo [R-ID]	Sen. Michael Enzi [R-WY]
Sen. Cory Gardner [R-CO]	Sen. Orrin Hatch [R-UT]	Sen. Dean Heller [R-NV]	Sen. John McCain [R-AZ]
Sen. James Risch [R-ID]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-07-26	Senate	Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held.
2017-05-25	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

HB2939 (Related) 2017-07-25 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 187.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1230/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s1230/BILLS-115s1230is.pdf