Senate bill · S. 1823 (119th Congress)
Black Vulture Relief Act of 2025
U.S. Senate
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Summary
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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Committee
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works · U.S. Senate
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- Bill Hagerty
- Cindy Hyde-Smith
- Cynthia M. Lummis
- James Lankford
- John Barrasso
- John Cornyn
- Katie Boyd Britt
- Pete Ricketts
- Rick Scott
- Roger F. Wicker
- Ted Budd
- Ted Cruz
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Full history
- May 20, 2025
Introduced
Introduced in U.S. Senate
U.S. Senate
- May 20, 2025
Referred to committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
- May 20, 2025
Referred to committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
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