[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1456 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1456

    To reauthorize the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 8, 2011

 Mr. Kind (for himself and Mr. Gerlach) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To reauthorize the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act.

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

SECTION 1. REAUTHORIZATION OF NEOTROPICAL MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION 
              ACT.

    Section 10 of the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (16 
U.S.C. 6109) is amended--
            (1) by striking subsections (a) and (b) and inserting the 
        following:
    ``(a) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to the Fund to carry out this Act such sums as are 
necessary for each of fiscal years 2012 through 2017, to remain 
available until expended, of which not less than 75 percent of the 
amounts made available for each fiscal year shall be expended for 
projects carried out outside the United States.''; and
            (2) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections 
        (b) and (c), respectively.
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