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H.R.1396
Sponsor: Rep McKinney, Cynthia A.(introduced 4/13/1999)
Latest Major Action: 4/30/1999 Referred to House subcommittee
Title: To save taxpayers money, reduce the deficit, cut corporate welfare, and protect and restore America's natural heritage by eliminating the fiscally wasteful and ecologically destructive commercial logging program on Federal public lands and to facilitate the economic recovery and diversification of communities dependent on the Federal logging program.
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TITLE(S):  (italics indicate a title for a portion of a bill)
STATUS: (color indicates Senate actions)
4/13/1999:
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, and Education and the Workforce, 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.
4/13/1999:
Referred to House Agriculture
4/19/1999:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
4/13/1999:
Referred to House Resources
4/19/1999:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
4/19/1999:
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands.
4/19/1999:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
4/19/1999:
Executive Comment Requested from USDA, Interior.
4/13/1999:
Referred to House Education and the Workforce
4/30/1999:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training and Life-Long Learning.
COMMITTEE(S):
RELATED BILL DETAILS:

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AMENDMENT(S):

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COSPONSORS(99), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Rep Ackerman, Gary L. - 4/13/1999 Rep Andrews, Robert E. - 4/13/1999
Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 4/13/1999 Rep Barrett, Thomas M. - 4/13/1999
Rep Becerra, Xavier - 7/26/2000 Rep Berkley, Shelley - 6/7/2000
Rep Berman, Howard L. - 9/18/2000 Rep Blagojevich, Rod R. - 10/18/2000
Rep Bonior, David E. - 4/13/1999 Rep Borski, Robert A. - 9/7/2000
Rep Brown, Corrine - 6/8/2000 Rep Brown, George E., Jr. - 4/13/1999
Rep Brown, Sherrod - 9/9/1999 Rep Capps, Lois - 6/6/2000
Rep Capuano, Michael E. - 4/13/1999 Rep Carson, Julia - 11/18/1999
Rep Christensen, Donna MC - 3/1/2000 Rep Clay, William (Bill) - 4/13/1999
Rep Conyers, John, Jr. - 4/13/1999 Rep Crowley, Joseph - 6/6/2000
Rep Cummings, Elijah E. - 3/1/2000 Rep Davis, Danny K. - 9/9/1999
Rep Delahunt, William D. - 9/7/2000 Rep DeLauro, Rosa L. - 4/13/1999
Rep Dixon, Julian C. - 4/13/1999 Rep Engel, Eliot L. - 6/23/1999
Rep Evans, Lane - 6/23/1999 Rep Fattah, Chaka - 7/27/2000
Rep Filner, Bob - 4/13/1999 Rep Forbes, Michael P. - 4/13/1999
Rep Ford, Harold, Jr. - 4/13/1999 Rep Frank, Barney - 4/13/1999
Rep Franks, Bob - 4/13/1999 Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 4/13/1999
Rep Hastings, Alcee L. - 4/13/1999 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 9/7/2000
Rep Hoeffel, Joseph M. - 6/7/2000 Rep Holt, Rush D. - 4/13/1999
Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. - 4/13/1999 Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila - 6/23/1999
Rep Johnson, Eddie Bernice - 9/9/1999 Rep Jones, Stephanie Tubbs - 4/13/1999
Rep Kleczka, Gerald D. - 4/13/1999 Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. - 4/13/1999
Rep Lantos, Tom - 4/13/1999 Rep Larson, John B. - 4/13/1999
Rep Leach, James A. - 4/13/1999 Rep Lee, Barbara - 4/13/1999
Rep Lewis, John - 4/13/1999 Rep Lofgren, Zoe - 4/13/1999
Rep Lowey, Nita M. - 7/26/2000 Rep Luther, Bill - 4/13/1999
Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 6/23/1999 Rep Markey, Edward J. - 4/13/1999
Rep Martinez, Matthew G. - 4/13/1999 Rep McCarthy, Carolyn - 6/23/1999
Rep McCarthy, Karen - 6/7/2000 Rep McDermott, Jim - 4/13/1999
Rep McGovern, James P. - 4/13/1999 Rep McNulty, Michael R. - 10/18/2000
Rep Meehan, Martin T. - 6/23/1999 Rep Meek, Carrie P. - 4/13/1999
Rep Meeks, Gregory W. - 4/13/1999 Rep Millender-McDonald, Juanita - 2/16/2000
Rep Miller, George - 10/19/1999 Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 6/23/1999
Rep Napolitano, Grace F. - 9/9/1999 Rep Neal, Richard E. - 6/23/1999
Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes - 9/9/1999 Rep Olver, John W. - 9/9/1999
Rep Owens, Major R. - 4/13/1999 Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. - 6/23/1999
Rep Pascrell, Bill, Jr. - 4/13/1999 Rep Payne, Donald M. - 4/13/1999
Rep Pelosi, Nancy - 6/23/1999 Rep Rangel, Charles B. - 2/16/2000
Rep Rivers, Lynn N. - 4/13/1999 Rep Rothman, Steve R. - 6/7/2000
Rep Roukema, Marge - 9/28/2000 Rep Roybal-Allard, Lucille - 9/7/2000
Rep Rush, Bobby L. - 4/13/1999 Rep Sanchez, Loretta - 4/11/2000
Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 6/23/1999 Rep Scott, Robert C. - 3/1/2000
Rep Serrano, Jose E. - 6/23/1999 Rep Sherman, Brad - 6/23/1999
Rep Slaughter, Louise McIntosh - 7/27/2000 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 4/13/1999
Rep Thompson, Bennie G. - 6/6/2000 Rep Tierney, John F. - 9/9/1999
Rep Towns, Edolphus - 4/13/1999 Rep Velazquez, Nydia M. - 4/4/2000
Rep Waters, Maxine - 4/13/1999 Rep Watt, Melvin L. - 6/23/1999
Rep Waxman, Henry A. - 4/13/1999 Rep Weiner, Anthony D. - 9/9/1999
Rep Wexler, Robert - 4/13/1999 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 4/13/1999
Rep Wynn, Albert Russell - 11/18/1999
Rep Boucher, Rick - 4/4/2000(withdrawn - 4/13/2000)

SUMMARY AS OF:
4/13/1999--Introduced.

National Forest Protection and Restoration Act of 1999 - Prohibits commercial logging and timber sales (with specified exceptions) on Federal public lands, with a two-year phase-out for existing contracts. Provides for payment of relinquished contracts. Authorizes appropriations.

Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to each establish a National Heritage Restoration Corps to restore such lands to their natural pre-logging condition.

Provides for worker retraining of eligible persons whose jobs have been lost due to terminated timber and logging contracts. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make training grants, including grants for job search and relocation.

Sets forth fund allocation provisions, including amounts for an Environmental Protection Agency investigation of non-wood paper and construction alternatives.