[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4248 Received in Senate (RDS)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 4248


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            October 1 (legislative day, September 29), 1998

                                Received

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To authorize the use of receipts from the sale of the Migratory Bird 
 Hunting and Conservation Stamps to promote additional stamp purchases.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Migratory Bird Hunting and 
Conservation Stamp Promotion Act''.

SEC. 2. PROMOTION OF STAMP SALES.

    (a) In General.--Section 4 of the Act of March 16, 1934 (chapter 
71; 16 U.S.C. 718d), popularly known as the Migratory Bird Hunting 
Stamp Act, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b) by striking ``subsection (c)'' and 
        inserting ``subsections (c) and (d)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Promotion of Stamp Sales.--(1) The Secretary of the Interior 
may utilize funds from the sale of migratory-bird hunting and 
conservation stamps, not to exceed $1,000,000 in each of fiscal years 
1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003, for the promotion of additional sales 
of those stamps, in accordance with a Migratory Bird Conservation 
Commission-approved annual marketing plan. Such promotion shall include 
the preparation of reports, brochures, or other appropriate materials 
to be made available to the public that describe the benefits to 
wildlife derived from stamp sales.
    ``(2) The Secretary of the Interior shall include in each annual 
report of the Commission under section 3 of the Migratory Bird 
Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 715b) a description of activities conducted 
under this subsection in the year covered by the report.''.

            Passed the House of Representatives September 28, 1998.

            Attest:

                                                ROBIN H. CARLE,

                                                                 Clerk.