118th Congress · HOUSE BILLBILL

H.R. 1437Black Vulture Relief Act of 2024

To authorize livestock producers and their employees to take black vultures in order to prevent death, injury, or destruction to livestock, and for other purposes.

Agriculture and food
Introduced Mar 8, 2023
Last action Dec 10, 2024
Pipeline · Bill → Law
Step 1
Introduced
Mar 8, 2023
Step 2
Referred
Apr 14, 2023
Natural Resources
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Committee
Jun 12, 2024
Reported out
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House floor
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Senate
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Resolve Changes
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Signed
SummaryCRS Summary

This bill allows livestock producers and their employees to take certain actions against black vultures to protect livestock. (Black vultures are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.) Specifically, livestock producers and their employees may (1) take (i.e., capture, kill, disperse, or transport) a black vulture that they reasonably believe will cause death, injury, or destruction to livestock; or (2) in the course of taking or attempting to take the black vulture, cause injury to the bird. Livestock producers and their employees must submit an annual report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) on black vultures taken under this bill. The FWS must make this reporting form a...

Provisions · 2 sectionsReported to House
Timeline · 9 actions
Dec 10, 2024
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 118-832.
Dec 10, 2024
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 679.
Jun 12, 2024
Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries Discharged
Jun 12, 2024
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Jun 12, 2024
Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 17 - 13.
Jul 27, 2023
Subcommittee Hearings Held
Apr 14, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries.
Mar 8, 2023
Introduced in House
Mar 8, 2023
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.