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SJM109...............................................by JUDICIARY AND RULES
CRAIG-WYDEN BILL - Stating findings of the Legislature and expressing
support for the reauthorization of the "Secure Rural School and Community
Self-Determination Act" or the Craig-Wyden bill and requesting the support
of the Congress and the President of the United States.
03/08 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
03/09 Rpt prt - to Educ
03/17 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 10th Ord
03/18 10th Ord - ADOPTED - voice vote
Floor Sponsor - Goedde
Title apvd - to House
03/21 House intro - 1st rdg - to Res/Con
03/30 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/31 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
Rls susp - ADOPTED - voice vote
Floor Sponsor - Eskridge
Title apvd - to Senate
04/01 To enrol - Rpt enrol - Pres/Sp signed
04/04 To Secretary of State
]]]] LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ]]]]
Fifty-eighth Legislature First Regular Session - 2005
IN THE SENATE
SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 109
BY JUDICIARY AND RULES COMMITTEE
1 A JOINT MEMORIAL
2 TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
3 TIVES OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE CONGRESSIONAL
4 DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE STATE OF IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED
5 STATES.
6 We, your Memorialists, the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
7 State of Idaho assembled in the First Regular Session of the Fifty-eighth
8 Idaho Legislature, do hereby respectfully represent that:
9 WHEREAS, bipartisan legislation sponsored by U.S. Senators Larry Craig and
10 Ron Wyden has financially assisted counties with large tracts of federal tim-
11 ber land within the county boundaries; and
12 WHEREAS, the Craig-Wyden bill set annual payments to counties with large
13 tracts of federal timber land, providing crucial funding for schools and roads
14 and providing millions of dollars for a variety of natural resource conserva-
15 tion projects from weed control to bridge replacements, from thinning forests
16 to trail building; and
17 WHEREAS, the Craig-Wyden bill's reauthorization is necessary to help rural
18 counties with timber lands plan and maintain their transportation infrastruc-
19 ture; and
20 WHEREAS, certain counties of Idaho are hamstrung in their ability to col-
21 lect property taxes by a supermajority of federal land ownership within its
22 boundaries; and
23 WHEREAS, if the Craig-Wyden bill is not reauthorized, it will have little
24 effect on the federal budget but could devastate timber counties and towns in
25 the Northwest and Idaho; and
26 WHEREAS, more than fifty percent of the Idaho Panhandle is owned by the
27 federal government and counties cannot collect property tax on federal lands
28 to support schools and to build and maintain roads; and
29 WHEREAS, it is crucial in tight economic times that the U.S. government
30 meet its obligation to the counties; and
31 WHEREAS, to some counties the reauthorization of the Craig-Wyden bill
32 could mean the difference between twenty-four miles of two-inch overlays and
33 simply filling potholes, or the difference between fifty miles of chip-sealed
34 roads and plowing snow.
35 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the First Regular Session
36 of the Fifty-eighth Idaho Legislature, the Senate and the House of Representa-
37 tives concurring therein, that we support reauthorization of the "Secure Rural
38 Schools and Community Self-Determination Act" or the Craig-Wyden bill by the
39 Congress of the United States and we request the President of the United
40 States to support this effort.
41 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate be, and she is
42 hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this Memorial to the Pres-
43 ident of the United States, George W. Bush, to the President of the Senate
44 and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Congress, and the congres-
2
1 sional delegation representing the State of Idaho in the Congress of the
2 United States.