[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4256 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4256

To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require, in counting the 
number of a species in a State for purposes of determining whether the 
species is an endangered or threatened species, inclusion of the number 
 of the species on State and private lands as determined by the State, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 14, 2014

    Mr. Stewart (for himself, Mr. Bishop of Utah, and Mr. Chaffetz) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require, in counting the 
number of a species in a State for purposes of determining whether the 
species is an endangered or threatened species, inclusion of the number 
 of the species on State and private lands as determined by the State, 
                        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 ``Endangered Species Improvement Act 
of 2014''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF NUMBER OF A SPECIES ON STATE AND PRIVATE LANDS IN 
              DETERMINATIONS UNDER ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT OF 1973.

    (a) Requirement.--Section 4(b)(1) of the Endangered Species Act of 
1973 (16 U.S.C. 1353(b)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(C) In counting the number of a species in a State for purposes 
of determining under this section whether the species is an endangered 
species or threatened species, the Secretary shall count all of the 
species without regard to whether it is found on State, private, or 
tribal lands as determined by the State for purposes of recovery of the 
species and determination of listing status on the basis of the best 
scientific and commercial data available.''.
    (b) Application.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply 
beginning on the first day of the year of the enactment of this Act.
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