Endangered Species Litigation Reasonableness Act

Endangered Species Litigation Reasonableness Act

This bill 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 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2109 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2109

 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

                             April 29, 2015

Mr. Huizenga of Michigan (for himself, Mrs. Lummis, Mr. Neugebauer, Mr. 
Collins of Georgia, and Mr. Hardy) 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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