Salmon FISH Act
Summary
Salmon Focused Investments in Sustainable Habitats Act or the Salmon FISH Act This bill addresses identifying, restoring, and protecting salmon conservation areas and salmon strongholds in the United States. Specifically, the bill requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to jointly issue guidance on the process and biological criteria required to identify salmon conservation areas and salmon strongholds; and directs the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in collaboration with NOAA to provide grants to certain entities to protect or maintain salmon conservation area or salmon stronghold features and projects that are focused on conservation and restoration within a salmon conservation area or stronghold, including to restore or maintain ecological functions and processes related to salmon productivity and diversity at watershed or subwatershed scales.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Jan 25, 2022
Last action Mar 17, 2022
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
8
Key actions
1
Committee
7
Mar 17, 2022
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
lower
Feb 8, 2022
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
lower
Jan 28, 2022
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
lower
Jan 28, 2022
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.
lower
Jan 28, 2022
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
lower
Jan 28, 2022
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
lower
Jan 25, 2022
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Foreign Affairs, 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
Jan 25, 2022
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 5 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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