USARK has an Action Alert at USARK.org to make it easy to contact your legislators concerning H.R. 996 (The Invasive Fish and Wildlife Prevention Act of 2013). Let’s “work smart” and show that USARK wants to be part of the solution and not the problem. Let your voice be heard! The alert can be found here.

USARK's legislative prospect statement concerning H.R. 996: H.R. 996 is essentially identical to H.R. 5864, a bill of the same name in the previous Congress that died last year with no action beyond referral to various committees. This year’s version of the bill is very likely to meet the same fate. There is little chance this legislation will pass the U.S. House of Representatives or the House Natural Resources Committee. Even passage in the Democratically-controlled Senate is extremely unlikely. There is also an analysis of H.R. 996 here.

Connecticut H.B. 5832 Update: The JF Deadline (the date by which each committee must report out bills or resolutions for further consideration by other committees or the full General Assembly) was April 3. The bill is now dead as it did not leave committee. This bill would have banned boa constrictors and Burmese pythons in Connecticut. Thanks to everyone who used the USARK Action Alert to voice their opinions!