Permanent Electronic Duck Stamp Act of 2013
The Permanent Electronic Duck Stamp Act of 2013 () is a bill that was introduced into the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress. The bill would authorize the United States Department of the Interior to issue electronic duck stamps as a form of Federal Duck Stamps. Background This Background section is primarily composed of information from the "Background and Need for Legislation" section of House Report 113-67, a public domain source. On March 16, 1934, Congress passed the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act. Under this law, every hunter over the age of 16 is required to purchase a Federal duck stamp each year to hunt migratory waterfowl. The price of a duck stamp has increased from $1 to the present cost of $15. Since the inception of the Federal Duck Stamp Program, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has collected more than $800 million from the sale of duck stamps. These monies, deposited in the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund, have been used to purchase or lease over 6 million acres of land at a total purchase price of over $1 billion for inclusion in the National Wildlife Refuge System. The Federal Duck Stamp Office has