We Urge Obama to sign the bill (H.R. 1454) passed by the senate on July 29, 2010 making it law. The bill would benefit global priority species such as tigers, rhinos, elephants, great apes and marine turtles, without any burden on the U.S. taxpayer
Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Act of 2009 - Requires the United States Postal Service to issue and sell, at a premium, a Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp that would benefit global priority species such as tigers, rhinos, elephants, great apes and marine turtles, without any burden on the U.S. taxpayer
Requires proceeds from the sale of such stamp to be:
(1) transferred to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, USFWS, to help fund the operations supported by the Multinational Species Conservation Funds; and
(2) divided equally among the African Elephant Conservation Fund, the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund, the Great Ape Conservation Fund, the Marine Turtle Conservation Fund, and the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund. Prohibits such proceeds from being taken into account in any decision relating to the level of appropriations or other federal funding to be furnished to the USFWS or such Funds.
Requires the stamp to:
(1) be made available to the public for at least five years; and
(2) depict images of flagship multinational species.
7/29/2010:
Passed/agreed to in Senate. The bill may now proceed to a conference committee of senators and representatives to work out differences in the versions of the bill each chamber approved.
The bill then goes to the President before becoming law.
President Barack Obama
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