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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
Introduced in Senate
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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.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 1729 Related bill To amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to exempt certain Alaskan Native articles from prohibitions against sale of item…
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Murkowski, Lisa
Alaska · Mar 3, 2016
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2637: 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.. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2637/
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"S. 2637: 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.." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2637/.
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S. 2637, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2637/.
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[S. 2637: 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.](https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2637/)
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