Endangered Species Litigation Reasonableness Act

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Endangered Species Litigation Reasonableness Act - Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to replace the current standard for awarding court costs, including attorney fees, in citizen suits with the federal judicial code standard for awarding costs to a prevailing party.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4318 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4318

 To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to conform citizen suits 
    under that Act with other existing law, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 27, 2014

Mr. Huizenga of Michigan (for himself, Mr. Hastings of Washington, Mrs. 
  Lummis, Mr. Amodei, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Mr. Collins of Georgia, Mr. 
Harris, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Luetkemeyer, Mr. Neugebauer, Mr. Southerland, 
Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Valadao) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in 
    addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to conform citizen suits 
    under that Act with other existing law, 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 ``Endangered Species Litigation 
Reasonableness Act''.

SEC. 2. AWARD OF LITIGATION COSTS TO PREVAILING PARTIES IN ACCORDANCE 
              WITH EXISTING LAW.

    Section 11(g)(4) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
1540(g)(4)) is amended by striking ``to any'' and all that follows 
through the end of the sentence and inserting ``to any prevailing party 
in accordance with section 2412 of title 28, United States Code.''.
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