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S 2637 114th Congress Senate Animals Alaska Natives and Hawaiians Art, artists, authorship Birds Indian lands and resources rights Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

A bill to amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to clarify the treatment of authentic Alaska Native articles of handicraft containing nonedible migratory bird parts, and for other purposes.

Introduced: March 3, 2016 Introduced by: Sullivan, Dan Republican · Alaska See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Mar 3, 2016
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill amends the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to provide that nothing in such Act prohibits possessing, selling, bartering, purchasing, shipping, and transporting any authentic Alaska Native handicraft, clothing or art on the basis that it contains a non-edible migratory bird part, so long as the bird was not taken in a wasteful manner.

What's happening now March 3, 2016

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
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