Establishes the Flint Hills Prairie National Monument in Kansas to: (1) preserve a part of the tallgrass prairie; (2) protect the area's unique environmental features; and (3) interpret specified characteristics of such area.
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to publish and submit to specified congressional committees a management plan for such monument.
Makes units of local government in which lands acquired for purposes of the monument are located eligible for payments in lieu of taxes.
Establishes the Flint Hills National Monument Advisory Commission to advise: (1) the Secretary on the development of a management plan; and (2) on the management and operation of the monument.
Authorizes appropriations.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. H. Rept. 102-244.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. H. Rept. 102-244.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 142.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 240 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2369 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. It shall be in order to consider the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs now printed in the bill as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule. Measure will be read by section. Bill is open to amendments.
Rule H. Res. 240 passed House.
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 240.
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2369 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. It shall be in order to consider the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs now printed in the bill as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule. Measure will be read by section. Bill is open to amendments.
House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 240 and Rule XXIII.
The Speaker designated the Honorable Ronald D. Coleman to act as Chairman of the Committee.
GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate.
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2369.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 284 - 121 (Roll no. 306).
Roll Call #306 (House)On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 284 - 121 (Roll no. 306).
Roll Call #306 (House)Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Referred to Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks.
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