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Tropical Forest Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2018
This bill reauthorizes the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998 through FY 2020 and expands the Act to include coral reefs as well as tropical forests. The bill also changes the name of the Act to the Tropical Forest and Coral Reef Conservation Act of 1998.
The bill authorizes to be appropriated funds for the Act's debt-for-nature swaps and debt buyback programs through FY 2020. Such programs convert reduce or convert debt obligations from eligible countries to the United States into funding for nature conservation and protection efforts in that country. The Tropical Forest Facility, an entity that administers the programs, shall be renamed the Conservation Facility.
The bill modifies the administration of agreements signed between the United States and each country that participate in the debt reduction programs. The administering body for each country that disperses grants under the Act shall have at least one U.S.-appointed individual serving in an official capacity. It also modifies the additional approval requirements for larger grants and defines such grants as those of more than $250,000. Currently, grants of more than $100,000 are subject to additional approval requirements.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing S. 1023 as public Law on Jan 14, 2019. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Dec 21, 2018
Tropical Forest Conservation Reauthorization Act
Passed · Two-thirds required
332 Yea 43 Nay 57 not voting
Crossed both parties 43 of 375 voting members broke with their own party: 43 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
432 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor S. 1023 and vote against it. 4 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named S. 1023 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
11 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.