Bill Details
HR.135 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-01-03 - Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Introduced Date
2025-01-03
Policy Area
Environmental Protection
Committees
View committees (1)
Sponsors
Cosponsors
View cosponsors (11)
- Rep. Frost, Maxwell [D-Florida-10]
- Rep. Webster, Daniel [R-Florida-11]
- Rep. Donalds, Byron [R-Florida-19]
- Rep. Soto, Darren [D-Florida-9]
- Rep. Scholten, Hillary J. [D-Michigan-3]
- Rep. Castor, Kathy [D-Florida-14]
- Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-Florida-12]
- Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-Virginia-7]
- Rep. Hernández, Pablo Jose [D-Puerto Rico]
- Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-Florida-25]
- Rep. Salazar, Maria Elvira [R-Florida-27]
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AI Summary This summary was generated by AI from the bill text. AI can get information wrong.
This bill would make the West Indian manatee officially count as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. In simple terms, it would give the manatee stronger federal protection and require the government to add it to the endangered species list. The bill is aimed at helping protect this marine animal through existing conservation rules.
- It says the West Indian manatee must be treated as an endangered species under federal law, even if other laws say otherwise.
- It directs the Secretary of the Interior to include the species on the official endangered species list.
- The bill applies to the West Indian manatee, also known by its scientific name, Trichechus manatus.
Official Summaries
Manatee Protection Act of 2025
This bill requires the Department of the Interior to include the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) in the endangered species list and give the species protections provided to endangered species.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 135 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 135
To designate the West Indian manatee as an endangered species under the
Endangered Species Act of 1973, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 3, 2025
Mr. Buchanan (for himself and Mr. Frost) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources
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A BILL
To designate the West Indian manatee as an endangered species under the
Endangered Species Act of 1973, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Manatee Protection Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. WEST INDIAN MANATEE DESIGNATED ENDANGERED SPECIES.
(a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
species known as the ``West Indian manatee'' (Trichechus manatus) shall
be treated as an endangered species for purposes of the Endangered
Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).
(b) Listing of West Indian Manatee.--Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, the Secretary of the Interior shall include the
species known as the ``West Indian manatee'' (Trichechus manatus) in
the endangered species list published under section 4(c) of the
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533(c)).
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