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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 - 2005
IN 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 general account fund 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 be a sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents ($1.25), and
16 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