Pet and Livestock Protection Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Pet and Livestock Protection Act directs the Secretary of the Interior to reissue, within 60 days, the November 3, 2020 final rule titled Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing the Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) From the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife. That rule removed the gray wolf from federal endangered and threatened wildlife protections. The bill then states that the reissued rule is not subject to judicial review, so challengers cannot use the courts to attack the reissuance.
Who Benefits and How
Ranchers, livestock producers, pet owners in wolf habitat areas, state fish and wildlife agencies, hunting outfitters, wildlife management services, and Interior officials implementing the 2020 rule benefit because delisting restores greater state management authority and reduces federal litigation risk around the reissued rule. Federal courts also benefit from being barred from hearing challenges to the reissuance.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Wildlife conservation organizations, environmental litigants, gray wolf recovery advocates, and states preferring stronger federal wolf protections bear the burden because the bill weakens federal Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves and bars judicial review of the reissued delisting rule. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff must reissue the rule on a 60-day deadline.
Key Provisions
- Requires the Interior Secretary to reissue the November 3, 2020 gray wolf delisting rule within 60 days.
- Removes gray wolves from the federal endangered and threatened wildlife list through reissuance of that rule.
- Restores greater state fish and wildlife management authority over gray wolves after delisting.
- Bars judicial review of the reissued delisting rule.
- Limits conservation litigants' ability to challenge the reissuance in federal court.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to reissue within 60 days the November 3, 2020 final rule delisting the gray wolf from endangered and threatened wildlife protections, and bars judicial review of that reissued rule.
Key Policy Areas
Wildlife, Endangered Species Act, Agriculture, Judicial Review
Primary Purpose
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to reissue within 60 days the November 3, 2020 final rule delisting the gray wolf from endangered and threatened wildlife protections, and bars judicial review of that reissued rule.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Ranchers
- Livestock producers
- Pet owners in wolf habitat areas
- State fish and wildlife agencies
- Hunting outfitters
- Wildlife management services
- Interior officials
- Federal courts
Identified Costs
- Wildlife conservation organizations
- Environmental litigants
- Gray wolf recovery advocates
- States preferring stronger federal wolf protections
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Passed HouseReceived; read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment …
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to …
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 211 - …
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas …
On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: …
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6070-6072)
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on H.R. …
The previous question on the motion to recommit was ordered …
Mr. Huffman moved to recommit to the Committee on Natural …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Livestock producers, Ranchers, Ranchers and livestock producers
Department of the Interior, Department of the Interior litigators, Federal courts
Positive-direction: Department of the Interior, Department of the Interior litigators, Federal courts, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Negative-direction: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff
Gray wolf recovery advocates, Wildlife conservation organizations, Wildlife conservation organizations and environmental litigants
State fish agencies, State fish and wildlife agencies, State wildlife agencies
Hunting outfitters, Wildlife management services
Hunting outfitters and wildlife management services
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "esa"
- → Endangered Species Act
- "fws"
- → U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- "interior"
- → Secretary of the Interior
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