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.

United States115th CongressS-1941Senate
Updated: Oct 5, 2017

Summary

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 nonedible migratory bird part, so long as the bird was not taken in a wasteful manner.

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Timeline

  1. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

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  2. Introduced in Senate

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