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Introduced Session

Multinational Species Conservation Funds Reauthorization Act of 2015 This bill reauthorizes the African Elephant Conservation Act, the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994, the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997, the Great Ape Conservation Fund, and the Marine Turtle Conservation Fund through FY2020. This bill amends the Great Ape Conservation Act of 2000 to authorize Department of the Interior to award a multi-year grant to carry out a project that is an effective, long-term conservation strategy for great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, orangutans, or gibbons) and their habitats. Interior is required to convene a panel of experts to identify the greatest needs and priorities for the conservation of great apes within a year of this Act's enactment and every five years thereafter. Current law authorizes Interior to convene a panel to consider the greatest conservation needs every two years. The panel is required to consider relevant great ape conservation plans or strategies. This bill amends the Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004 to make a wildlife management authority of a U.S. territory eligible for financial assistance for marine turtle conservation.

Committee Categories

Don Young (R)*,  Don Beyer (D),  Earl Blumenauer (D),  Madeleine Bordallo (D),  Vern Buchanan (R),  Ander Crenshaw (R),  Peter DeFazio (D),  Tammy Duckworth (D),  Eliot Engel (D),  Elizabeth Esty (D),  Jeff Fortenberry (R),  Christopher Gibson (R),  Kay Granger (R),  Luis Gutiérrez (D),  Jared Huffman (D),  Steve Israel (D),  Ron Kind (D),  Barbara Lee (D),  Ted Lieu (D),  Daniel Lipinski (D),  Frank LoBiondo (R),  Zoe Lofgren (D),  Alan Lowenthal (D),  Beto O'Rourke (D),  Scott Peters (D),  Pedro Pierluisi (I),  Mike Quigley (D),  Dutch Ruppersberger (D),  Kilili Sablan (D),  Loretta Sanchez (D),  Jan Schakowsky (D),  Adam Schiff (D),  Nydia Velázquez (D),  Peter Welch (D),  David Young (R), 

Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands. (on 03/02/2015)

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