# 116-hr-8263: To ensure opportunities for Department of Defense participation in wildlife conservation banking programs, and for other purposes.

116-hr-8263, To ensure opportunities for Department of Defense participation in wildlife conservation banking programs, and for other purposes., is a 116th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1] (R-VA); status Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife. (as of 2025-11-18).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-8263
- As of: 2025-11-18
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Bill: 116-hr-8263
- Congress: 116
- Title: To ensure opportunities for Department of Defense participation in wildlife conservation banking programs, and for other purposes.
- Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
- Introduced: 2020-09-15
- Sponsor: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1] (R-VA)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

This bill directs the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to ensure opportunities for participation by the Department of Defense in wildlife conservation banking programs, to issue regulations that establish objectives, measurable performance standards, and criteria for use with respect to such programs. Mitigation banking is a method of offsetting the effects of development on a species, or habitat of such species, that is endangered, threatened, or otherwise at risk. The bill requires the regulatory standards and criteria, to the extent practicable, to maximize available credits and opportunities for mitigation, provide flexibility for characteristics of various species, and apply equivalent standards and criteria to all mitigation banks.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Rep. Haaland, Debra A. [D-NM-1] (D-NM), 2020-09-15T00:00:00.000Z

## Related bills

- 116-hr-8662: Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for ALS Act
- 116-hr-7483: Flexible Financing for Rural America Act of 2020
- 116-hr-7071: Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for ALS Act
- 116-hr-3742: Recovering America’s Wildlife Act of 2019
- 116-hr-3589: Greg LeMond Congressional Gold Medal Act
- 116-hr-2435: Accelerating Veterans Recovery Outdoors Act

## Sources
- [116-hr-8263 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8263)

## Related
- [116-hr-8662: Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for ALS Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-8662)
- [116-hr-7483: Flexible Financing for Rural America Act of 2020](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-7483)
- [116-hr-7071: Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for ALS Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-7071)
- [116-hr-3742: Recovering America’s Wildlife Act of 2019](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-3742)
- [116-hr-3589: Greg LeMond Congressional Gold Medal Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-3589)
- [116-hr-2435: Accelerating Veterans Recovery Outdoors Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-2435)
- [All bills in Congress](https://policyrisk.com/legislation)

Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-8263 (as of 2025-11-18).