[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2603 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2603

 To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to provide that nonnative 
species in the United States shall not be treated as endangered species 
            or threatened species for purposes of that Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 23, 2017

    Mr. Gohmert (for himself, Mr. Babin, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Tipton, Mr. 
 Westerman, Mr. King of Iowa, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Abraham, Mr. Marshall, 
 and Mr. Hunter) 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 provide that nonnative 
species in the United States shall not be treated as endangered species 
            or threatened species for purposes of 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 ``Saving America's Endangered Species 
Act'' or the ``SAVES Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON TREATMENT OF NONNATIVE SPECIES IN THE UNITED 
              STATES AS ENDANGERED SPECIES OR THREATENED SPECIES.

    (a) Limitation.--Section 13 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 
(relating to amendments to other laws, which have executed) is amended 
to read as follows:

 ``limitation on treatment of certain species as endangered species or 
                           threatened species

    ``Sec. 13.  (a) Limitation.--The species described in subsection 
(b) shall not be treated as endangered species or threatened species 
for purposes of this Act.
    ``(b) Covered Species.--The species referred to in subsection (a) 
are species in the United States that are not native to the United 
States.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--The table of contents in the first 
section of such Act is amended by striking the item relating to section 
13 and inserting the following:

``Sec. 13. Limitation on treatment of certain species as endangered 
                            species or threatened species.''.
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