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<dc:title>118 HR 4389 : Migratory Birds of the Americas Conservation Enhancements Act of 2023</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2024-04-10</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">IIB</distribution-code><congress display="yes">118th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">2d Session</session><legis-num display="yes">H. R. 4389</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber><action><action-date date="20240410">April 10, 2024</action-date><action-desc>Received; read twice and referred to the <committee-name committee-id="SSEV00">Committee on Environment and Public Works</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>AN ACT</legis-type><official-title display="yes">To amend the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act to make improvements to that Act, and for other purposes.</official-title></form><legis-body display-enacting-clause="yes-display-enacting-clause" style="OLC" id="H40DE5566F34B42D6AB4734DD2C948B36"><pagebreak></pagebreak><section id="H99F484B41AEA483F8636B9C153210DEF" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Migratory Birds of the Americas Conservation Enhancements Act of 2023</short-title></quote>.</text></section><section id="H0D4B1E57A2FE45719DB33CD168D6FF5D"><enum>2.</enum><header>Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act amendments</header><subsection id="H5B44F2575F104642ADA4912721B27E9A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Federal share</header><text>Section 5(e)(1) of the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/6104">16 U.S.C. 6104(e)(1)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>25 percent</quote> and inserting <quote>33.3 percent</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="HF199A6DDDC164D94BCF6D2C7B6E517A1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Cooperation</header><text>Section 7 of the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/6106">16 U.S.C. 6106</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H5E9A095C67CC480BBBE55BD46A4183F5"><subsection id="H6FDDB22999594A06AC39F5E72A8FC923"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report to Congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of the <short-title>Migratory Birds of the Americas Conservation Enhancements Act of 2023</short-title>, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives a report describing the implementation of subsection (b) by the Secretary, which shall include, if applicable, a description of the composition of the advisory group convened under paragraph (1) of that subsection.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H13E3F01E77C545E48119E824E865F7DC"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 10(a) of the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/6109">16 U.S.C. 6109(a)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>2023</quote> and inserting <quote>2028</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="H5F79365ABC7A4A179DD359F7495115C2"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Technical corrections</header><paragraph id="H2F093804D96645E5B101DA0524B22C02"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>Section 4 of the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/6103">16 U.S.C. 6103</external-xref>) is amended—</text><subparagraph id="H8697431FA40E49D39210C73DFDE64392"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (1); and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7C04AD784B2F42FDB012C9C59B0A61C7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (2) through (5) as paragraphs (1) through (4), respectively.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H2FA82D1184EA40709A097530324A6BFD"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Cooperation</header><text>Section 7(b)(1) of the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/6106">16 U.S.C. 6106(b)(1)</external-xref>) is amended in the second sentence by adding a period at the end.</text></paragraph></subsection></section></legis-body><attestation><attestation-group><attestation-date date="20240409" chamber="House">Passed the House of Representatives April 9, 2024.</attestation-date><attestor display="yes">Kevin F. McCumber,</attestor><role>Clerk.</role></attestation-group></attestation></bill> 

