[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4093 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4093

  To amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to provide for penalties and 
 enforcement for intentionally taking protected avian species, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 6, 2007

   Mr. DeFazio (for himself, Mr. Wu, Mr. Blumenauer, and Ms. Hooley) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to provide for penalties and 
 enforcement for intentionally taking protected avian species, and for 
                            other purposes.

    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 Treaty Act Penalty 
and Enforcement Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT OF MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT.

    Section 6 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 707) is 
amended by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (d) and 
(e), respectively, and by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c)(1) Except in the case of hunting and other activity allowed 
under section 3, whoever, in violation of this Act, intentionally takes 
by any manner any migratory bird shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon 
conviction, shall be fined not more than $50,000 for each violation or 
imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
    ``(2) Any person who intentionally commits any other act or 
omission in violation of this Act or any regulations issued under this 
Act shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a felony and shall be fined 
not more than $25,000 for each violation or imprisoned for not more 
than six months, or both.''.
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