[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2463 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2463

      To prohibit the sale of shark parts, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 16, 2017

  Mr. Ted Lieu of California introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
      To prohibit the sale of shark parts, 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 ``Shark Sales Elimination Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON SALE OF SHARK PARTS.

    (a) Prohibition.--Except as provided in section 3, no person shall 
possess, offer for sale, sell, or purchase any shark part or product 
containing any shark part.
    (b) Penalty.--For purposes of section 308(a) of the Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1858(a)), a 
violation of this section shall be treated as an act prohibited by 
section 307 of that Act (16 U.S.C. 1857).

SEC. 3. EXEMPTION FOR TRADITIONAL FISHERIES, EDUCATION, AND SCIENCE.

    Section 2 shall not apply with respect to possession of a shark 
part that was taken lawfully under a State, territorial, or Federal 
license or permit to take or land sharks, if the shark part is 
separated from the shark in a manner consistent with the license or 
permit and is--
            (1) destroyed or discarded;
            (2) used for noncommercial subsistence purposes in 
        accordance with State or territorial law; or
            (3) used solely for display or research purposes by a 
        museum, college, or university, or other person under a State 
        or Federal permit to conduct noncommercial scientific research.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Shark.--The term ``shark'' means any species of the 
        orders Pristiophoriformes, Squatiniformes, Squaliformes, 
        Hexanchiformes, Lamniformes, Carchariniformes, 
        Orectolobiformes, and Heterodontiformes.
            (2) Shark part.--The term ``shark part'' means any shark or 
        raw, dried, or otherwise processed detached part of a shark.

SEC. 5. STATE AUTHORITY.

    Nothing in this Act affects any right of a State or territory of 
the United States to adopt or enforce any regulation or standard that 
is more stringent than a regulation or standard in effect under this 
Act.
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