H.R. 4208 — Introduced in House

I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4208 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES August 23, 2019Mr. Yoho introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to prohibit treatment of certain non-native, non-indigenous hoofstock born within the borders of the United States as an endangered species, a threatened species, an essential experimental population, or a nonessential experimental population. 1. Prohibition of treatment of certain hoofstock as endangered species, threatened species, essential experimental population, or nonessential experimental population Section 3 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1532) is amended— (1) by inserting before the first sentence the following: (a) In general ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (b) Limitation (1) A covered hoofstock born within the borders of the United States shall not be treated as an endangered species, a threatened species, an essential experimental population, or a nonessential experimental population under this Act. (2) In this subsection the term covered hoofstock means any barasingha, red lechwe, Arabian oryx, Eld’s deer, Grevy’s zebra, gaur, or banteng. .