[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1918 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1918

 To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to extend the import- and 
export-related provision of that Act to species proposed for listing as 
                threatened or endangered under that Act.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 3, 2015

Mr. Menendez (for himself, Mr. Booker, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Cardin, Ms. 
Mikulski, and Mr. Markey) introduced the following bill; which was read 
  twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to extend the import- and 
export-related provision of that Act to species proposed for listing as 
                threatened or endangered under that Act.

    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 ``Conserving Ecosystems by Ceasing the 
Importation of Large (CECIL) Animal Trophies Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT OF 1973.

    Section 9(a)(1) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
1538(a)(1)) is amended by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the 
following:
            ``(A) for any such species listed, or proposed to be 
        listed, under section 4, import the species into, or export the 
        species from, the United States;''.
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