US Congress Senate Bill 90 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2018-12-11 - By Senator Murkowski from Committee on Energy and Natural Resources filed written report. Report No. 115-426. Minority and Supplemental views filed.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act This bill directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to commission a survey to identify the South Bank boundary line with respect to land along a specified 116-mile stretch of the Red River in Oklahoma and Texas (the affected area). The survey shall: adhere to the gradient boundary survey method; span the length of the affected area; be conducted by surveyors who are licensed and qualified to conduct official gradient boundary surveys, and selected by and operating under the direction of the Texas General Land Office and the Oklahoma Commissioners of the Land Office (the offices); and be completed within two years of enactment of this bill. The BLM shall submit the survey to the offices for approval and, within 60 days of receiving it, they shall determine whether to approve it. Surveys of individual parcels in the affected area shall be conducted according to the requirements for the survey of the South Bank boundary line. A survey of such a parcel shall be approved or disapproved by the offices within 60 days of receipt. The survey for identifying the South Bank boundary line and any survey of an individual parcel shall not be submitted to the BLM for approval. After a survey for an individual parcel has been approved, the offices shall submit to the BLM: a notice of the approval of such survey, and a copy of such survey and any field notes related to the parcel.

Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act

Sen. John Cornyn [R-TX]

Sen. Ted Cruz [R-TX]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-12-11	Senate	By Senator Murkowski from Committee on Energy and Natural Resources filed written report. Report No. 115-426. Minority and Supplemental views filed.
2018-11-29	Senate	Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 687.
2018-11-29	Senate	Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. Without written report.
2018-10-02	Senate	Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
2017-07-26	Senate	Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held.
2017-02-28	Senate	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
2017-02-28	Senate	Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.
2017-01-10	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

HB428 (Related) 2017-03-07 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/90/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s90/BILLS-115s90is.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s90/BILLS-115s90rs.pdf