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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-832
BLACK VULTURE RELIEF ACT OF 2024
DECEMBER 10, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 1437]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1437) to authorize livestock producers and their employ-
ees to take black vultures in order to prevent death, injury, or de-
struction to livestock, and for other purposes, having considered
the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Black Vulture Relief Act of 2024.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR LIVESTOCK PRODUCERS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES TO TAKE CER-
TAIN BLACK VULTURES.
(a) DEFINITIONS.-In this section:
(1) BLACK VULTURE.-The term black vulture means a bird of the species
Coragyps atratus.
(2) COVERED PERSON.-The term covered person means-
(A) a livestock producer; or
(B) an employee of a livestock producer when the employee is actively en-
gaged in livestock production.
(3) DIRECTOR.-The term Director means the Director of the United States
Fish and Wildlife Service.
(4) LIVESTOCK-The term livestock has the meaning given the term in sec-
tion 602 of the Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance Act of 1988 (7 U.S.C.
1471).
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