A bill to prohibit the use of funds to Federal agencies to establish a panel, task force, advisory committee, or other effort to challenge the scientific consensus on climate change, and for other purposes.

II Calendar No. 35 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S. 729 To prohibit the use of funds to Federal agencies to establish a panel, task force, advisory committee, or other effort to challenge the scientific consensus on climate change, and for other purposes. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES MARCH 7, 2019 Mr. SCHUMER (for himself, Mr. CARPER, Mr. REED, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. SCHATZ, Ms. SMITH, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. BOOKER, Ms. STABENOW, Ms. KLO- BUCHAR, Ms. HASSAN, Mr. MERKLEY, and Mrs. FEINSTEIN) introduced the following bill; which was read the first time MARCH 11, 2019 Read the second time and placed on the calendar A BILL To prohibit the use of funds to Federal agencies to establish a panel, task force, advisory committee, or other effort to challenge the scientific consensus on climate change, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:02 Mar 12, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S729.PCS S729 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 2 •S 729 PCS SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO CHAL- 1 LENGE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS ON CLIMATE 2 CHANGE. 3 No amounts appropriated or otherwise made avail- 4 able to a Federal agency (as defined in section 1004 of 5 the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6903) and in- 6 cluding the Executive Office of the President) may be used 7 to establish or operate a panel, task force, other advisory 8 committee, or other effort intended to challenge the sci- 9 entific consensus on climate change, as presented in the 10 assessment required under section 106 of the Global 11 Change Research Act of 1990 (15 U.S.C. 2936). 12 VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:02 Mar 12, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S729.PCS S729 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:02 Mar 12, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S729.PCS S729 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS Calendar No. 35 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S. 729 A BILL To prohibit the use of funds to Federal agencies to establish a panel, task force, advisory committee, or other effort to challenge the scientific con- sensus on climate change, and for other pur- poses. MARCH 11, 2019 Read the second time and placed on the calendar VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:02 Mar 12, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6651 Sfmt 6651 E:\BILLS\S729.PCS S729 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS