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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Padraig Sea" data-source="post: 209546" data-attributes="member: 14430">Here is the actual text of the Lacey amendment in this bill. It makes massive changes to an already overbroad and bad law that’s enforced arbitrarily and capriciously already. Takeaways are that USFWS could bad an interstate transport of any non-native species it sees fit overnight. There would be no public review, and because this would be codified in law there would be effectively no way to stop them.Note that this isn’t the ESA - it doesn’t just apply to commerce. Bringing a listed animal over state lines to visit a vet would be a violation. It also effectively ends imports as we know if. The law creates a “white list” of species that USFWS decides you are allowed to import. I can tell you based on years of experience and dozens of imports that they want excuses to say no, not yes.Thank you to those of you who’ve reached out to legislators. Please continue doing so, and please follow industry groups like USARK for actions you can take as the Senate reviews this bill and, hopefully, strips out this hobby killer.</blockquote>