[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4019 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4019

   To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to prohibit the 
  taking, importation, and exportation of Orcas and Orca products for 
                public display, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 16, 2015

  Mr. Schiff (for himself, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Kilmer, Ms. 
Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. Ted Lieu of California, Ms. Lee, Mr. Pocan, 
 and Mr. Keating) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on 
Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
 in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to prohibit the 
  taking, importation, and exportation of Orcas and Orca products for 
                public display, 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 ``Orca Responsibility and Care 
Advancement Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON TAKING, IMPORTATION, AND EXPORTATION OF ORCAS 
              AND ORCA PRODUCTS FOR PUBLIC DISPLAY.

    (a) Prohibition on Permits for Taking or Importation.--Section 
104(a) of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1374(a)) 
is amended by inserting ``(1)'' after ``(a)'', and by adding at the end 
the following:
    ``(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no permit may be 
issued under this Act that authorizes the taking or importation of any 
marine mammal of the species Orcinus orca, or any marine mammal product 
that consists, or is composed in whole or in part, of such species, for 
the purpose of public display.''.
    (b) Prohibition on Exportation for Public Display.--Section 102(a) 
of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1372(a)) is 
amended by striking ``and'' after the semicolon at the end of paragraph 
(4), by striking the period at the end of paragraph (5) and inserting 
``; and'', and by adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) notwithstanding any other provision of law, to export 
        any marine mammal of the species Orcinus orca, or any marine 
        mammal product that consists, or is composed in whole or in 
        part, of such species, for the purpose of public display.''.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON BREEDING OF ORCAS.

    The Animal Welfare Act is amended by inserting after section 26 (7 
U.S.C. 2156) the following new section:

``SEC. 26A. BREEDING OF ORCAS.

    ``It shall be unlawful for any person to artificially inseminate or 
breed a marine mammal of the species Orcinus orca for exhibition 
purposes.''.
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