The record

LegislationLegislation· Dec 2024
S 2908

Sponsored by Martin Heinrich (D)

Indian Buffalo Management Act

Would have created a permanent Interior Department program to help tribes own and manage buffalo.

Tradeoff

Would have set up a permanent federal program to help tribes restore and manage buffalo. Would have let Interior send surplus federal buffalo to tribes and waive fees.

What's in it

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Costs $49 million over 2025-2029 (five years), assuming the authorized $14 million per year is .

This is an authorization of $14 million a year for Interior to help tribes restore and manage buffalo herds, so the cost is the federal money that would be spent on that program.

S. 2908, Indian Buffalo Management Act · Nov 2024

Passed the Senate by on December 12, 2024. The House never voted on it before the Congress ended.

  1. Senate

    Introduced

    (Sep 21, 2023)

  2. Senate

    Committee on Indian Affairs(Sep 21, 2023)

  3. Senate

    The Committee on Indian Affairs voted to send it to the floor

    Reported(Sep 25, 2024)

    Committee report S. Rept. 118-246.

  4. Senate · Amended

    Senator Heinrich's

    Agreed to by (S.Amdt. 3324 · Dec 12, 2024)

    Adds a sunset ending the Act's authority on December 31, 2031, and removes a duplicate tribal organization definition while fixing lettering in the buffalo program.

    No individual votes were recorded.

  5. Senate

    Passage of the bill

    Passed by (Dec 12, 2024)

    No individual votes were recorded.

  6. House

    Received from the Senate

    Received(Dec 16, 2024)