Blue Carbon Protection Act
Summary
Blue Carbon Protection Act This bill establishes programs, grants, and requirements to protect and restore marine and blue carbon ecosystems, which are vegetated coastal habitats and include mangroves, tidal marshes, and other tidal or salt-water wetlands that have the capacity to sequester and store carbon.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jun 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Jun 15, 2021
Last action Jun 22, 2021
Floor votes
How they voted
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
5
Key actions
1
Committee
4
Jun 22, 2021
Lower · Passed
Committee Hearings Held.
lower
Jun 17, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
lower
Jun 16, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
lower
Jun 15, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
lower
Jun 15, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 16 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Jared Huffman
DDemocratic
Co
Abigail Davis Spanberger
DDemocratic
Co
Andy Kim
DDemocratic
Co
Andy Levin
DDemocratic
Co
Chellie Pingree
DDemocratic
Co
Doris O. Matsui
DDemocratic
Co
Ed Case
DDemocratic
Co
Eleanor Holmes Norton
DDemocratic
Co
Emanuel Cleaver
DDemocratic
Co
James P. McGovern
DDemocratic
Co
Karen Bass
DDemocratic
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