SAVES Act

This bill (S 771, the SAVES Act) would amend the Endangered Species Act to prohibit the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from listing any living nonnative species as threatened or endangered. It directly affects the Fish and Wildlife Service, which administers the Endangered Species Act, by preventing them from adding nonnative species (species introduced outside their natural range, like invasive animals or plants) to the threatened or endangered species list. The key mechanism is adding a new section to the Endangered Species Act that explicitly blocks this listing authority under Section 4(c) of the law. This change would prevent the legal process of designating nonnative species as protected under the Act, though it does not affect existing listings or other protections for native species.