Lacey Act Clarifying Amendments Act of 2013

Lacey Act Clarifying Amendments Act of 2013 - Amends the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to prohibit such Act from applying to: (1) any plant that was imported into the United States before May 22, 2008, or (2) any finished plant product the assembly and processing of which was completed before May 22, 2008.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3280 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3280

 To amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to limit the application of 
 such Act to certain imported plants and finished plant products, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 9, 2013

 Mr. Fleming (for himself and Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania) introduced 
  the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to limit the application of 
 such Act to certain imported plants and finished plant products, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Lacey Act Clarifying Amendments Act 
of 2013''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF PLANTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS UNDER LACEY ACT 
              AMENDMENTS OF 1981.

    Section 9 of the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 (16 U.S.C. 3378) is 
redesignated as section 10, and the following is inserted after section 
8:

``SEC. 9. LIMITATION ON APPLICATION TO CERTAIN PLANTS AND PLANT 
              PRODUCTS.

    ``This Act does not apply with respect to--
            ``(1) any plant that was imported into the United States 
        before May 22, 2008; or
            ``(2) any finished plant product the assembly and 
        processing of which was completed before May 22, 2008.''.
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