S.Amdt. 1205

SA 1205. Ms. LUMMIS (for herself and Mr. Risch) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by her to the concurrent resolution
S. Con. Res. 7, setting forth the congressional budget for the United
States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title III, add the following:

SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO THE
ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT OF 1973.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution,
and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or
more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between
the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to
improving implementation of the Endangered Species Act of
1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) through enhanced flexibility
and cooperation with private landowners, creating regulatory
certainty for affected stakeholders, establishing clear
recovery metrics, increasing incentives for proactive species
conservation, streamlining consultation processes, improving
coordination with State and local governments, recognizing
and encouraging successful conservation efforts by private
landowners, or developing other innovative approaches that
benefit species recovery and stakeholder interests by the
amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2025
through 2029 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2025
through 2034.
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