Nevada Lands Bill Technical Corrections Act of 2018
Latest action. Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Nevada Lands Bill Technical Corrections Act of 2018
This bill modifies provisions concerning lands in Nevada. Specifically, the bill:
repeals the expedited program for the examination of unpatented mining claims within the mining townsites in Virginia City in Storey County;
requires the exterior boundaries of identified "subject federal land" in Storey County to be surveyed as the conveyed townsites;
requires implementation of a multispecies habitat conservation plan in Lincoln County;
provides for the implementation of certain rangeland and woodland restoration projects, particularly for pinyon-juniper dominated landscapes, in Lincoln County;
requires cooperative agreements for certain law enforcement and planning-related activities in Lincoln County;
provides for the use of certain land sale proceeds in Lincoln and White Pine Counties;
adjusts the boundaries of the Mt. Moriah Wilderness and Arc Dome Wilderness; and
establishes a deadline for a land conveyance to White Pine County.
The U.S. Postal Service shall designate a single zip code for Storey County.
The Department of the Interior shall realign a specified portion of an identified 2,640-foot wide corridor established on public land for utilities in Lincoln and Clark Counties.
The bill affirms and validates a certain patent for the benefit of desert tortoise and other species and their habitats in Clark County.
The Bureau of Land Management may issue a corrective patent for specified land in Lincoln County.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in House" stage on June 29, 2018. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
4 steps remain before this bill could become law.
The record's latest action, on September 26, 2018: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- Clearing the committees it was referred to, and being scheduled for a floor vote
- Passage by the House
- Passage by the Senate
- The President's signature. If the President vetoes it, two-thirds of both chambers must vote to override.
How likely is it to become law?
Civibrief does not forecast outcomes and this page has no opinion about this one. What the record supports is a base rate, which is a fact about the whole pile, not a prediction about this measure.
In the 115th Congress (2017-18), 442 of the 11,421 bills and joint resolutions introduced became law, about 3.9 percent. That count covers every measure at every stage, including the many that never left committee.
This one is not there yet: 4 steps are still outstanding, listed above.
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
Mark Amodei (R-NV) introduced it on June 29, 2018. No cosponsors are recorded.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
How long has it been in play?
It was introduced on June 29, 2018, 2995 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 2906 days ago, on September 26, 2018.
Measures do not carry over. Anything the 115th Congress has not finished by January 3, 2019 dies when the term ends, and has to be introduced again from the start in the next Congress.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- HouseIn committee, no floor vote yet
- SenateAwaits House passage
- PresidentAwaits both chambers