[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4208 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4208

 To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to prohibit treatment of 
certain non-native, non-indigenous hoofstock born within the borders of 
 the United States as an endangered species, a threatened species, an 
   essential experimental population, or a nonessential experimental 
                              population.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 23, 2019

   Mr. Yoho 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 prohibit treatment of 
certain non-native, non-indigenous hoofstock born within the borders of 
 the United States as an endangered species, a threatened species, an 
   essential experimental population, or a nonessential experimental 
                              population.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION OF TREATMENT OF CERTAIN HOOFSTOCK AS ENDANGERED 
              SPECIES, THREATENED SPECIES, ESSENTIAL EXPERIMENTAL 
              POPULATION, OR NONESSENTIAL EXPERIMENTAL POPULATION.

    Section 3 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1532) is 
amended--
            (1) by inserting before the first sentence the following:
    ``(a) In General.--''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) Limitation.--
            ``(1) A covered hoofstock born within the borders of the 
        United States shall not be treated as an endangered species, a 
        threatened species, an essential experimental population, or a 
        nonessential experimental population under this Act.
            ``(2) In this subsection the term `covered hoofstock' means 
        any barasingha, red lechwe, Arabian oryx, Eld's deer, Grevy's 
        zebra, gaur, or banteng.''.
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