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H0067.........................................by RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION FOREST LAND OWNERS - Amends existing law to increase the forest practice assessment by the Department of Lands for private owners of twenty-five acres or fewer of forest lands to the per acre cost multiplied by twenty-five. 01/28 House intro - 1st rdg - to printing 01/31 Rpt prt - to Res/Con 02/16 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg 02/17 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg 02/18 3rd rdg - PASSED - 66-4-0 AYES -- Anderson, Andrus, Barraclough, Barrett, Bastian, Bedke, Bell, Bilbao, Black, Block, Boe, Bolz, Bradford, Cannon, Chadderdon, Clark, Collins, Crow, Deal, Denney, Edmunson, Ellsworth, Eskridge, Field(18), Field(23), Garrett, Hart, Henbest, Henderson, Jaquet, Jones, Kemp, Lake, LeFavour, Loertscher, Martinez, Mathews, McGeachin, Miller, Mitchell, Moyle, Nielsen, Nonini, Pasley-Stuart, Pence, Raybould, Ring, Ringo, Roberts, Rusche, Rydalch, Sali, Sayler, Shepherd(2), Shepherd(8), Shirley, Skippen, Smith(30), Smith(24), Smylie(Telleria), Snodgrass, Stevenson, Trail, Wills, Wood, Mr. Speaker NAYS -- Bayer, Harwood, McKague, Schaefer Absent and excused -- None Floor Sponsor - Sayler Title apvd - to Senate 02/21 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to Res/Env 03/15 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg 03/16 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg 03/21 3rd rdg - PASSED - 31-0-3, 1 vacancy AYES -- Andreason, Brandt, Broadsword, Bunderson, Burkett, Burtenshaw, Cameron, Compton, Corder, Darrington, Davis, Gannon, Geddes, Goedde, Hill, Jorgenson, Kelly, Keough, Langhorst, Little, Lodge, Marley, McGee, McKenzie, Pearce, Richardson, Schroeder, Stegner, Stennett, Sweet, Williams NAYS -- None Absent and excused -- Coiner, Malepeai, Werk, (District 21 seat vacant) Floor Sponsor - Langhorst Title apvd - to House 03/22 To enrol 03/23 Rpt enrol - Sp signed 03/24 Pres signed - To Governor 03/28 Governor signed Session Law Chapter 176 Effective: 07/01/05
]]]] LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ]]]] Fifty-eighth Legislature First Regular Session - 2005IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HOUSE BILL NO. 67 BY RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION COMMITTEE 1 AN ACT 2 RELATING TO FOREST PRACTICES ASSESSMENTS; AMENDING SECTION 38-134, IDAHO CODE, 3 TO REVISE THE ASSESSMENT FOR FOREST LAND OWNERS OF TWENTY-FIVE ACRES OR 4 LESS AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS. 5 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho: 6 SECTION 1. That Section 38-134, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby 7 amended to read as follows: 8 38-134. FOREST PRACTICES ACT ADMINISTRATION -- FUNDING. The director of 9 the department of lands is charged in section 38-1305, Idaho Code, to adminis- 10 ter and enforce the forest practices act on all private forest lands within 11 the state. Funding for this activity shall come from an annual budget request 12 from the generalaccountfund and from an annual assessment to be paid by 13 every private owner of forest land in the state. The assessment for private 14 owners of forest lands whose total acres of forest lands are twenty-five (25) 15 acres or fewer shall bea sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents ($1.25), and16 equal to the per acre cost multiplied by twenty-five (25). Ffor private owners 17 of forest lands whose total acres of forest lands are twenty-six (26) acres or 18 more, the assessment shall be determined by the state board of land commis- 19 sioners not to exceed ten cents (10¢) an acre per year. The assessment shall 20 be collected in the same fashion and at the same time as the forest protection 21 assessment described in section 38-111, Idaho Code.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE RS 14482 When the Fifty-seventh Legislature modified Idaho Code 38-134 to allow the State Board of Land commissioners to increase the annual assessment of private owners of forest lands from $0.05/acre to a maximum of $0.10/acre, IDL neglected to modify code language affecting private owners of forest lands whose total acres are 25 acres of fewer. The proposed revision corrects this oversight, and contains language that will prevent this mistake from occurring in the future. FISCAL IMPACT Revenues from forest landowner assessments whose total acres are 25 acres or less will increase $1.25 to $2.50 per landowner per year, generating an additional $69,000 per year for the Forest Practices Act Dedicated Account. Contact Name: Ron Litz, Lands, Department of Phone: 208-666-8604 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE H 67