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Allowing Alaska IVORY Act

Introduced: October 17, 2017 Introduced by: Sullivan, Dan Republican · Alaska See on congress.gov
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Dec 5, 2018
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 718.
Dec 5, 2018
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Thune with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 115-415. Supplemental views filed.
Sep 5, 2018
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Oct 17, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Oct 17, 2017
Introduced in Senate
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Allowing Alaska to Improve Vital Opportunities in the Rural Economy Act or the Allowing Alaska IVORY Act

This bill amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to revise an exemption for Alaskan natives from a moratorium on taking and importing marine mammals and marine mammal products with respect to ivory from walruses, whales, or mammoths. Under current law, the term "take" means to harass, hunt, capture, or kill, or attempt to harass, hunt, capture, or kill a marine mammal.

States may not prohibit: (1) the importation, sale, transfer, trade, barter, or possession of ivory from walruses or whales if the ivory is legally produced by Alaskan natives as an authentic native article of handicrafts and clothing; or (2) the importation, sale, transfer, trade, or possession of mammoth ivory or mammoth ivory products.

What's happening now December 5, 2018

Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 718.

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Murkowski, Lisa
Alaska · Oct 17, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1965: Allowing Alaska IVORY Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-1965/
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"S. 1965: Allowing Alaska IVORY Act." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-1965/.
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