Bill > S3304

This bill, the Monarch Action, Recovery, and Conservation of Habitat Act of 2020 (MONARCH Act of 2020), aims to encourage and facilitate efforts by states and other stakeholders to conserve and sustain the western population of monarch butterflies. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Establishing the Western Monarch Butterfly Rescue Fund, which the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will use to provide grants for the conservation of western monarch butterflies. 2. Directing the USDA to transfer funds from the Western Monarch Butterfly Rescue Fund to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to implement the Western Monarch Butterfly Conservation Plan prepared by the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. 3. Requiring the Secretary of the Interior to submit an annual report to Congress describing the status of western monarch butterflies and providing summaries of the funded conservation projects. The bill aims to address the significant decline in the western monarch butterfly population, which has decreased by more than 99% over the past three decades due to factors such as loss of habitat, climate change, and prolonged drought.