[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 279 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 279

To permanently prohibit oil and gas leasing off the coast of the State 
                 of California, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 8, 2019

  Mr. Carbajal (for himself, Ms. Brownley of California, Ms. Lofgren, 
Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Cardenas, 
Mrs. Davis of California, Ms. Barragan, Mr. Swalwell of California, Mr. 
   McNerney, Mr. Khanna, Ms. Speier, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. Aguilar, Mr. 
    Sherman, Ms. Lee of California, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Ms. Hill of 
  California, Mr. Takano, Mr. Levin of California, Mr. Cisneros, Mr. 
    DeSaulnier, Mr. Rouda, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Gomez, Mr. Thompson of 
 California, Mr. Correa, Ms. Eshoo, Ms. Sanchez, Ms. Matsui, Mr. Ruiz, 
Mr. Bera, Mr. Cox of California, Mr. Peters, Mrs. Torres of California, 
  Ms. Porter, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Mr. Vargas, Mr. Ted Lieu of 
  California, and Ms. Bass) introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To permanently prohibit oil and gas leasing off the coast of the State 
                 of California, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``California Clean Coast Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF OIL AND GAS LEASING IN AREAS OF THE OUTER 
              CONTINENTAL SHELF LOCATED OFF THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA.

    Section 8 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1337) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(q) Prohibition of Oil and Gas Leasing in Areas of the Outer 
Continental Shelf Located Off the Coast of California.--
            ``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
        this Act or any other law and except as provided in paragraph 
        (2), beginning on the date of enactment of this subsection, the 
        conduct of oil and gas preleasing, leasing, and related 
        activities is prohibited in areas of the outer Continental 
        Shelf located off the coast of the State of California.
            ``(2) Effect.--Nothing in this subsection affects any 
        rights under leases issued under this Act before the date of 
        enactment of this subsection.''.
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