Allows livestock producers and their employees to capture, kill, or disperse black vultures that are causing or are reasonably believed to cause death, injury, or destruction to livestock, notwithstanding the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, while banning poison and requiring annual reports to the Fish and Wildlife Service.

• Covers livestock producers and employees actively engaged in livestock production, and lets them take or attempt to take black vultures that are causing or are reasonably believed to cause death, injury, or destruction to livestock
• Permits taking a black vulture by capturing, killing, or dispersing it, or by transporting a carcass, and allows incidental injury to a vulture during such taking
• Prohibits taking black vultures through the use of poison
• Requires covered persons who take black vultures to file an annual report by January 31 on a form the Fish and Wildlife Service Director develops within 180 days, which may be no more burdensome than existing Migratory Bird Treaty Act permit forms

• Natural Resources Committee (House)

Agriculture and Food