Bills · 118th Congress · Environmental Protection

America’s Conservation Enhancement Reauthorization Act of 2024

Also known as America's Conservation Enhancement Reauthorization Act of 2024

Where it stands

  1. Introduced2/8/24
  2. Passed SenatePassed 5/8/24
  3. HousePassed 12/3/24
  4. PresidentSigned 12/23/24
  5. LawPublic Law 118-198

Passed the Senate with an amendment by voice vote on May 8, 2024. Passed the House 366–21 on December 3, 2024 (Roll Call 479 →). Became Public Law 118-198 on December 23, 2024.

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Roll calls on this bill

Votes on passage
HouseOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended · 12/3/24Suspension of the rulesA fast-track House procedure, usually for measures expected to have broad support. Debate is limited to 40 minutes, no amendments can be offered, and it needs a two-thirds vote of members voting — not a simple majority. A yes vote passes the bill. “As amended” means changes written into the motion itself are included.Rules of the House, Rule XV, clause 1 ↗
Passed
  • Democratic191 Yea · 0 Nay · 22 Not voting
  • Republican175 Yea · 21 Nay · 23 Not voting
  • Independent / Other0 Yea · 0 Nay · 0 Not voting
Official summary (CRS)

America's Conservation Enhancement Reauthorization Act of 2024

This act reauthorizes through FY2030 and modifies several wildlife and conservation programs, including the Chronic Wasting Disease Task Force, the management of invasive species under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Establishment Act, the Chesapeake Bay Program, the Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network, the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Grant Assistance Program, the Chesapeake Watershed Investments for Landscape Defense program, and fish habitat conservation projects under the America's Conservation Enhancement Act.

In addition, the act modifies the America's Conservation Enhancement Act, including to provide statutory authority for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to carry out a black vulture livestock protection program that allows one public entity or Farm Bureau organization per state to hold a statewide depredation permit to protect commercial agriculture livestock from black vulture predation. It also authorizes appropriations for the FWS to complete the National Fish Habitat Assessment and the associated database.

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Sponsor
Sen. Thomas R. Carper ( Democrat · DE)
Cosponsors
15
Introduced
2/8/24
Policy area
Environmental Protection

What happens next

Became Public Law 118-198.

All actions (25)
  1. 2/8/24Introduced in Senate
  2. 2/8/24Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
  3. 3/12/24Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
  4. 3/12/24Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Carper with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
  5. 3/12/24Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 343.
  6. 5/8/24Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S3626-3627; text: CR S3626-3627)
  7. 5/8/24Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S3626-3627; text: CR S3626-3627)
  8. 5/9/24Message on Senate action sent to the House.
  9. 5/10/24Received in the House.
  10. 5/10/24Held at the desk.
  11. 12/3/24Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
  12. 12/3/24Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6273-6276)
  13. 12/3/24DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 3791.
  14. 12/3/24At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
  15. 12/3/24Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6280)
  16. 12/3/24Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 366 - 21 (Roll no. 479). (text: CR H6273-6274)
  17. 12/3/24On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 366 - 21 (Roll no. 479). (text: CR H6273-6274)
  18. 12/3/24Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  19. 12/4/24Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate bill.
  20. 12/18/24Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House Amendment to S. 3791 by Voice Vote.
  21. 12/18/24Senate agreed to the House Amendment to S. 3791 by Voice Vote.
  22. 12/19/24Message on Senate action sent to the House.
  23. 12/23/24Presented to President.
  24. 12/23/24Signed by President.
  25. 12/23/24Became Public Law No: 118-198.