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H.R. 2462In committee
Black Vulture Relief Act
Introduced: Mar 27, 2025
Latest action date: Oct 3, 2025
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Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 286.
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- Congress
- 119th Congress
- Introduced
- Mar 27, 2025
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Status detail: The most advanced recorded stage is committee consideration.
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What this bill does
Black Vulture Relief Act of 2025
This bill allows livestock producers and their employees to take certain actions against black vultures to protect livestock. (Black vultures are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.)
Specifically, livestock producers and their employees may (1) take (i.e., capture, kill, or disperse, or transport the carcass of) a black vulture that they reasonably believe will cause death, injury, or destruction to livestock; or (2) in the course of taking or attempting to take the black vulture, cause injury to the bird. However, they may not take or attempt to take a black vulture through the use of poison.
Livestock producers and their employees must submit an annual report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) on black vultures taken under this bill. The FWS must develop a reporting form and make this reporting form available on its website.
Currently, the FWS has a permit process under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act for the taking of black vultures.
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Agriculture and Food
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Animal protection and human-animal relationshipsBirdsLivestock
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Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-334.
CommitteeHouse floor actionsPlaced on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 286.
CalendarsHouse floor actionsReported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-334.
CommitteeLibrary of CongressOrdered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 22 - 18.
CommitteeHouse committee actionsCommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
CommitteeHouse committee actionsIntroduced in House
IntroReferralLibrary of CongressIntroduced in House
IntroReferralLibrary of CongressReferred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
IntroReferralHouse floor actions
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