Canyon’s Law
Summary
Canyon's Law This bill prohibits the preparing, placing, installing, setting, deploying, or otherwise using an M-44 device on public land. An M-44 device is defined as a device designed to propel sodium cyanide when triggered by an animal, including any device that may be commonly known as an M-44 ejector device or an M-44 predator control device. No later than 30 days after the enactment of this bill, any federal, state, or county agency that has prepared, placed, installed, set, or deployed an M-44 device on public land shall remove each such device from such land.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Aug 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Aug 6, 2021
Last action Jul 21, 2022
Floor votes
How they voted
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
6
Key actions
1
Committee
5
Jul 21, 2022
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
lower
Aug 30, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
lower
Aug 19, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
lower
Aug 19, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
lower
Aug 6, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.
lower
Aug 6, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 23 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Peter A. DeFazio
DDemocratic
Co
André Carson
DDemocratic
Co
Andy Levin
DDemocratic
Co
Brendan F. Boyle
DDemocratic
Co
Diana DeGette
DDemocratic
Co
Dina Titus
DDemocratic
Co
Earl Blumenauer
DDemocratic
Co
Eleanor Holmes Norton
DDemocratic
Co
Gerald E. Connolly
DDemocratic
Co
Grace F. Napolitano
DDemocratic
Co
Jamaal Bowman
DDemocratic
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