1. Short title This Act may be cited as the African Elephant Conservation and Legal Ivory Possession Act . 2. References Except as otherwise specifically provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a provision of the African Elephant Conservation Act ( 16 U.S.C. 4201 et seq. ). 3. Limited exemption for certain African elephant ivory Section 2203 ( 16 U.S.C. 4223 ) is amended— (1) by inserting (a) In general .— before the first sentence; (2) by inserting and subsection (b) of this section after 2202(e) ; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (b) Exemption Nothing in this Act or subsection (a) or (d) of section 9 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ( 16 U.S.C. 1538 ) shall be construed to prohibit importation or exportation, or to require permission of the Secretary for importation or exportation, of— (1) any raw ivory or worked ivory— (A) imported solely for purposes of becoming part of a museum’s permanent collection, return to a lending museum, or display in a museum; or (B) exported solely for purposes of— (i) display in a foreign museum; or (ii) return to a foreign person who lent such ivory to a museum in the United States; (2) any raw ivory or worked ivory that was lawfully importable into the United States on February 24, 2014, regardless of when acquired