[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3041 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3041

To amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to provide an exception for a 
de minimus amount of fish or wildlife included in interstate commercial 
                   shipments, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 23, 2017

    Mr. Crawford (for himself, Mr. Westerman, Mr. Abraham, and Mr. 
  Aderholt) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to provide an exception for a 
de minimus amount of fish or wildlife included in interstate commercial 
                   shipments, 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 ``Aquaculture Risk Reduction Act''.

SEC. 2. EXCEPTION FOR DE MINIMUS FISH OR WILDLIFE IN INTERSTATE 
              COMMERCIAL SHIPMENTS.

    Section 8 of the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 (16 U.S.C. 3375) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) De Minimus Fish or Wildlife in Interstate Commercial 
Shipments.--Section 3(a)(2) does not apply to a person transporting, 
selling, receiving, acquiring, or purchasing in interstate commerce a 
de minimus amount of fish or wildlife taken, possessed, transported, or 
sold in violation of any law or regulation of any State if such fish or 
wildlife was included in an interstate commercial shipment of fish or 
wildlife that were bred, hatched, or born in captivity for human 
consumption or for use for recreational or ornamental purposes, unless 
such inclusion was done knowingly or intentionally.''.
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