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Committee amends and advances Forestry Commission cleanup bill to full committee
Summary
The Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs committee amended House Bill 36-29 to allow the State Forestry Commission to acquire timberland and sub‑marginal agricultural land, and voted to advance the bill to the full committee after adopting the amendment.
House Bill 36-29, a package of updates to Title 48 concerning the State Forestry Commission, was amended and passed by the Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs committee and will go to the full committee for consideration.
Representative Moore, who presented the bill, told the committee the legislation compiles changes identified during an oversight subcommittee that held eight hearings with the department and updated statutory language that had not been revised in decades. State Forester Scott Phillips and David Jones, general counsel to the Forestry Commission, attended and answered…
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