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<meta><dc:title>118 HR 4389 ENR: To amend the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act to make improvements to that Act, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>H. R.</dc:type><docNumber>4389</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="118">One Hundred Eighteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="2">A T T  H  E S  E  C  O  N  D S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-four</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">To amend the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act to make improvements to that Act, and for other purposes.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</enactingFormula>
<section id="d85e62" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/4389/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Migratory Birds of the Americas Conservation Enhancements Act of 2023</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d85e72" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/4389/s2" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>NEOTROPICAL MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION ACT AMENDMENTS.</heading><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d85e76" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/4389/s2/a" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Federal Share</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 5(e)(1) of the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t16/s6104/e/1">16 U.S.C. 6104(e)(1)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>25 percent</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>33.3 percent</quotedText>”.</content></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d85e97" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/4389/s2/b" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Cooperation</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 7 of the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t16/s6106">16 U.S.C. 6106</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Report to Congress</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of the Migratory Birds of the Americas Conservation Enhancements Act of 2023, 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.”</content></subsection></quotedContent>.</content></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d85e125" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/4389/s2/c" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Authorization of Appropriations</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 10(a) of the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t16/s6109/a">16 U.S.C. 6109(a)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>2023</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>2028</quotedText>”.</content></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d85e146" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/4389/s2/d" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Technical Corrections</inline>.—</heading><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d85e153" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/4389/s2/d/1" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Definitions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 4 of the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t16/s6103">16 U.S.C. 6103</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><subparagraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d85e168" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/4389/s2/d/1/A" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> paragraph (1); and</content></subparagraph><subparagraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d85e176" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/4389/s2/d/1/B" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> paragraphs (2) through (5) as paragraphs (1) through (4), respectively.</content></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d85e184" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/4389/s2/d/2" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Cooperation</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 7(b)(1) of the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t16/s6106/b/1">16 U.S.C. 6106(b)(1)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> in the second sentence by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> a period at the end.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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