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Congressional Research Service
Version 82 · Passed Senate without amendment · May 12, 2009
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Designates May 15, 2009, as Endangered Species Day.
Encourages: (1) schools to spend at least 30 minutes on such Day teaching and informing students about threats to, and efforts to restore, endangered species; (2) organizations, businesses, private landowners, and agencies with a shared interest in conserving endangered species to collaborate in developing educational information for use in schools; and (3) people to become educated about, and aware of, threats to species, success stories in species recovery, and opportunities to promote species conservation.
People & committees
Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] · D–CA
Legislative record
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Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S5394)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S5394)
Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5394)
Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S5394)
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4977)
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4977-4978)
Introduced in Senate
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