You may well be right on this specific bill. What I thought refreshing was the attempt to tie endangered species designations to reality. If the data are false, "enriched", or otherwise lie about the true situation in the field, then all bets are off.
But golly gee, as an engineer, I'd like to see some reality introduced into this political football! The methods of the econuts are transparent, and I fume at the naked attempts (usually successful) to take land without remuneration in the name of "endangered species", when their actual agenda is a grab for power.