Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
This bill amends the Endangered Species Act to bar the Secretary from listing any species as endangered or threatened if that species is not native to the United States. It also prohibits financial assistance under ESA Section 8(a) from being used to acquire lands, waters, or interests in foreign countries.
Left stresses international conservation and migratory species impacts
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill directly amends the Endangered Species Act to add categorical prohibitions: barring the listing of species 'not native to the United States' and forbidding use of certain financial assistance to acquire land in foreign countries.
This bill amends the Endangered Species Act to bar the Secretary from listing any species as endangered or threatened if that species is not native to the United States.
It also prohibits financial assistance under ESA Section 8(a) from being used to acquire lands, waters, or interests in foreign countries.
Narrow but ideologically charged changes to a high-profile statute with few compromise features make enactment unlikely without aligned congressional majorities.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill directly amends the Endangered Species Act to add categorical prohibitions: barring the listing of species 'not native to the United States' and forbidding use of certain financial assistance to acquire land in foreign countries. The statutory changes are concise and located within specific ESA provisions, but the bill omits definitions, transitional provisions, fiscal analysis, and oversight or enforcement mechanisms.
Left stresses international conservation and migratory species impacts
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Left stresses international conservation and migratory species impacts
Likely opposed.
The bill limits conservation tools and international cooperation by forbidding protections or funds for nonnative species and banning foreign land acquisition.
Critics would view this as undermining science-based conservation and migratory species protections.
Mixed view.
Supports protecting federal funds and sovereignty, but worries about blunt language causing unintended conservation gaps.
Would seek clarifying amendments for migratory species, treaties, and precise definitions.
Generally supportive.
The bill limits federal authority to protect species not native to the U.S. and stops use of ESA funds to acquire foreign land, aligning with sovereignty and fiscal restraint priorities.
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Narrow but ideologically charged changes to a high-profile statute with few compromise features make enactment unlikely without aligned congressional majorities.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Left stresses international conservation and migratory species impacts
Narrow but ideologically charged changes to a high-profile statute with few compromise features make enactment unlikely without aligned con…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill directly amends the Endangered Species Act to add categorical prohibitions: barring the listing of species 'not native to the United States' and forbidding use of cer…
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