lacey act amendments of 2021

S 626

SPONSOR: Sen. Marco Rubio
CO-SPONSORS: 1 (as of 4/27/22)
STATUS: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works 3/9/21

SPECIES AFFECTED: Non-native species AND injurious species

SECTORS AFFECTED: Importers

CLASSIFICATION: Ban – Interstate Transport & US Import

DETAILS:

1. Replaces the ban on shipment between the continental United States for injurious species with a ban on transport between the states. 
   
2. Allows the Secretary of the Interior to issue emergency regulations to prohibit import of any wild mammals, wild birds, fish (including mollusks and crustacea), amphibians, or reptiles, or their offspring or eggs as injurious to human beings, agriculture, horticulture, forestry, or wildlife or US wildlife resources for up to 3 years if imminent threat to such entities – effective immediately after publication in register or within 60 days if otherwise prescribed
   
3. Adds presumptive ban on import into the US of any species of non-native wild mammals, wild birds, fish (including mollusks and crustacea), amphibians, or reptiles, or their offspring or eggs except when a year before the effective dates more than minimal quantities were imported into the US or transported between states or territories OR the Secretary of Interior after public comment determines a species to not be serious risk of invasiveness
   

EXEMPTIONS: None

GRANDFATHERING: None

ENFORCING AGENCY: US Fish & Wildlife Service

SEIZURE & FORFEITURE: Animals must be exported or destroyed

PENALTIES: Same as Lacey Act

EFFECTIVE DATE: 1 year after enactment