Bill Sponsor
House Bill 5179
116th Congress(2019-2020)
Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act of 2019
Introduced
Introduced
Introduced in House on Nov 19, 2019
Overview
Text
Introduced
Nov 19, 2019
Latest Action
Oct 9, 2020
Origin Chamber
House
Type
Bill
Bill
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Bill Number
5179
Congress
116
Policy Area
Native Americans
Native Americans
Primary focus of measure is matters affecting Native Americans, including Alaska Natives and Hawaiians, in a variety of domestic policy settings. This includes claims, intergovernmental relations, and Indian lands and resources.
Sponsorship by Party
Democrat
Arizona
Democrat
New Mexico
Democrat
New Mexico
House Votes (0)
Senate Votes (0)
No House votes have been held for this bill.
Summary

Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act of 2019

This bill authorizes the use of wildlife corridors on Indian land to provide habitat or ecological connectivity and allow for fish, wildlife, or plant movement on such land.

Specifically, the bill permits an Indian tribe to nominate a corridor within the land of such tribe as a tribal wildlife corridor. The Department of the Interior must establish criteria for determining whether such a corridor qualifies as a tribal wildlife corridor, including criteria for restoring historical habitat.

Interior must provide tribes with technical assistance to establish, manage, or expand a tribal wildlife corridor. Such assistance must include support with accessing wildlife data and working with private landowners to access programs for facilitating connectivity on nonfederal land.

Additionally, Interior must (1) establish a program to award grants to tribes to increase connectivity through tribal wildlife corridors, and (2) consult with tribes to determine whether a tribal wildlife corridor may be expanded into public lands or otherwise benefit connectivity between public lands and such corridor.

The bill also permits the Department of Agriculture to give priority under certain conservation programs to those projects that enhance connectivity by expanding a tribal wildlife corridor.

Text (2)
October 9, 2020
November 19, 2019
Actions (12)
10/09/2020
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 457.
10/09/2020
Committee on Agriculture discharged.
10/09/2020
Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 116-559, Part I.
01/29/2020
Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States Discharged.
01/29/2020
Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife Discharged.
01/29/2020
Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 22 - 15.
01/29/2020
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
12/11/2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
12/06/2019
Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.
12/06/2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
11/19/2019
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
11/19/2019
Introduced in House
Public Record
Record Updated
Jan 11, 2023 1:44:37 PM