SAFE Act
- Last Action
- 11/16/2022
Actions
- 2022-11-16Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 412.
- 2022-11-16Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 117-571.
- 2022-11-16Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 117-571.
- 2022-01-19Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 18.
- 2022-01-19Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- 2022-01-19Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States Discharged.
- 2022-01-19Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife Discharged.
- 2022-01-19Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands Discharged.
- 2022-01-19Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Discharged.
- 2021-07-29Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- 2021-06-16Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
- 2021-06-16Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.
- 2021-06-16Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
- 2021-06-16Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
- 2021-04-28Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
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CRS Summary
As of 2022-11-16 (07)
Safeguarding America's Future and Environment Act or the SAFE Act
The bill requires the development of an integrated national approach to help fish, wildlife, and plants adapt to extreme weather changes and climate change.
Specifically, the bill requires the President to establish an interagency National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy Joint Implementation Working Group. The working group must adopt the 2013 National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy, which addresses the effects of extreme weather and climate change on fish, wildlife, and plants.
After the Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences releases a periodic scientific assessment required under the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the working group must use sound science to review and revise the strategy to incorporate new information and advances in the development of strategies to help fish, wildlife, and plants adapt. Each federal agency must integrate the strategy into agency plans, environmental reviews, and programs.
The Department of the Interior must establish a National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center to assess and develop scientific information, tools, strategies, and techniques to support the working group and other interested parties in addressing the effects of extreme weather and climate change.
Interior must establish an Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Sciences to advise the working group.
Cosponsors (20)
- Ed Case (D-HI)
- Sean Casten (D-IL)
- Yvette Clarke (D-NY)
- Steve Cohen (D-TN)
- Gerald Connolly (D-VA)
- Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA)
- Debbie Dingell (D-MI)
- Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ)
- Stephen Lynch (D-MA)
- Grace Meng (D-NY)
- GRACE NAPOLITANO (D-CA)
- ELEANOR NORTON (D-DC)
- Mark Pocan (D-WI)
- Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
- Mary Scanlon (D-PA)
- BENNIE THOMPSON (D-MS)
- NYDIA VELAZQUEZ (D-NY)
- Jared Huffman (D-CA)
- Jimmy Panetta (D-CA)
- Ann Kuster (D-NH)
Subjects
- Advisory bodies
- Air quality
- Animal protection and human-animal relationships
- Aquatic ecology
- Atmospheric science and weather
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Department of the Interior
- Ecology
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Fishes
- Indian lands and resources rights
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Scientific communication
- State and local government operations
- Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
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