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H.R. 4951: Canyon’s Law

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H.R. 4951: Canyon’s Law

117th Congress · introduced 2021-08-06 · Public Lands and Natural Resources · Latest: Subcommittee Hearings Held.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2021-08-06 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Subcommittee Hearings Held. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Canyon’s Law

Plain summary

Canyon's Law This bill prohibits the preparing, placing, installing, setting, deploying, or otherwise using an M-44 device on public land. An M-44 device is defined as a device designed to propel sodium cyanide when triggered by an animal, including any device that may be commonly known as an M-44 ejector device or an M-44 predator control device. No later than 30 days after the enactment of this bill, any federal, state, or county agency that has prepared, placed, installed, set, or deployed an M-44 device on public land shall remove each such device from such land.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Canyon’s Law

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4] · 23 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA), James A. Himes (D-CT), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Diana DeGette (D-CO), André Carson (D-IN), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Dina Titus (D-NV), James P. McGovern (D-MA)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong117-hr4951 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117