Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 2023

United States118th CongressHR-615House of Representatives
Updated: May 1, 2024

Summary

Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 2023 This bill bars the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture from prohibiting or regulating the use of lead ammunition or tackle on federal land or water that is under the jurisdiction of such departments and made available for hunting or fishing. The bill makes exceptions for specified existing regulations and where the applicable department determines that a decline in wildlife population at the specific unit of federal land or water is primarily caused by the use of lead in ammunition or tackle, based on the field data from such unit, and the state approves the regulations.

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S-1185: Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 2023

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

  1. On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 204 - 211 (Roll no. 166).

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  2. On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 214 - 201 (Roll no. 167). (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR H2735)

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  3. Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

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  4. Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

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