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HOUSE BILL NO. 67 – Forest land owners, assessment

HOUSE BILL NO. 67

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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

Bill Text


                                                                        
                                                                        
  ]]]]              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 / Fiscal Impact



                       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