[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1537 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1537

To amend the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act to reauthorize 
                                the Act.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 12, 2017

 Mr. Cardin (for himself, Mr. Coons, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Franken, Mr. 
   Nelson, Mr. Udall, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Carper, Mr. Leahy, and Mr. 
   Portman) 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 Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act to reauthorize 
                                the 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 ``Migratory Birds of the Americas 
Conservation Act''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF NEOTROPICAL MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION ACT.

    Section 10 of the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (16 
U.S.C. 6109) is amended to read as follows:

``SEC. 10. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    ``(a) In General.--There is authorized to be appropriated to carry 
out this Act $6,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2018 through 2023.
    ``(b) Use of Funds.--Of the amounts made available under subsection 
(a) for each fiscal year, not less than 75 percent shall be expended 
for projects carried out at a location outside of the United States.''.
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