HR 181
Cleared committee
Requires the Secretary to treat captive-bred animals the same as wild-born animals in Endangered Species Act determinations and to allow captive breeding to satisfy mitigation requirements for listed species.
Official title: To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to provide that artificially propagated animals shall be treated the same under that Act as naturally propagated animals, and for other purposes.
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
03-JAN-2025
Referred
03-JAN-2025
Approved by committee
15-SEP-2026
- Directs the Secretary not to distinguish between naturally and artificially propagated animals in any determination under the Act.
- Rewrites Section 14 to require the Secretary to authorize artificial propagation of a species for any mitigation the Act requires for that species.
- Applies these changes to a species whether it was listed as endangered or threatened before, on, or after the date of enactment.
Current. The Congressional Research Service's summary covers the bill's latest wording (Introduced in House, 03-JAN-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Natural Resources Committee (House)
Environmental Protection
No cosponsors.