A bill to permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

II 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S. 302 To permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES JANUARY 31, 2019 Mr. BURR (for himself, Mr. BENNET, Mrs. CAPITO, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. DAINES, Ms. ERNST, Mr. GARDNER, Mr. GRAHAM, Ms. HASSAN, Mr. KING, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. TESTER, Mr. HEINRICH, and Mr. ALEX- ANDER) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources A BILL To permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. PERMANENT REAUTHORIZATION OF LAND AND 3 WATER CONSERVATION FUND. 4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 200302 of title 54, United 5 States Code, is amended— 6 (1) in subsection (b), in the matter preceding 7 paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘During the period end- 8 VerDate Sep 11 2014 21:36 Feb 08, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S302.IS S302 pamtmann on DSKBFK8HB2PROD with BILLS 2 •S 302 IS ing September 30, 2018, there’’ and inserting 1 ‘‘There’’; and 2 (2) in subsection (c)(1), by striking ‘‘through 3 September 30, 2018’’. 4 (b) PUBLIC ACCESS.—Section 200306 of title 54, 5 United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 6 following: 7 ‘‘(c) PUBLIC ACCESS.—Not less than 1.5 percent of 8 amounts made available for expenditure in any fiscal year 9 under section 200303, or $10,000,000, whichever is great- 10 er, shall be used for projects that secure recreational pub- 11 lic access to existing Federal public land for hunting, fish- 12 ing, and other recreational purposes.’’. 13 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 21:36 Feb 08, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\S302.IS S302 pamtmann on DSKBFK8HB2PROD with BILLS