S. 2891: Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act of 2019

116th Congress · introduced 2019-11-19 · Native Americans · Latest: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 605.

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Where it came from: introduced 2019-11-19 · official record
Who proposed it: Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
Where it stands now: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 605. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act of 2019

Plain summary

Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act of 2019 This bill authorizes the use of wildlife corridors on Indian land to provide habitat or ecological connectivity and allow for fish, wildlife, or plant movement on such land. Specifically, the bill permits an Indian tribe to nominate a corridor within the land of such tribe as a tribal wildlife corridor. The Department of the Interior must establish criteria for determining whether such a corridor qualifies as a tribal wildlife corridor, including criteria for restoring historical habitat. Interior must provide tribes with technical assistance to establish, manage, or expand a tribal wildlife corridor. Such assistance must include support with accessing wildlife data and working with private landowners to access programs for facilitating connectivity on nonfederal land. Additionally, Interior must (1) establish a program to award grants to tribes to increase connectivity through tribal wildlife corridors, and (2) consult with tribes to determine whether a tribal wildlife corridor may be expanded into public lands or otherwise benefit connectivity between public lands and such corridor. The bill also permits the Department of Agriculture to give priority under certain conservation programs to those projects that enhance connectivity by expanding a tribal wildlife corridor.

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Official text

Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act of 2019

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM] · 7 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: S. 2891, Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act of 2019 (2020-09-03)

Cosponsors on this site

Cory A. Booker (D-NJ), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Bernard Sanders (I-VT), Tina Smith (D-MN), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)

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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-116s2891.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/116/s>

Record fed-us-cong116-s2891 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116