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Committee approves HB 200 to expand emergency reopening authority for federal lands, adds Fish and Wildlife sites and reporting change
Summary
The House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee on Wednesday gave HB 200 a favorable recommendation to let the state include U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service facilities on the prioritized list of federal sites the state could keep open during a federal government shutdown and to change where a recreation infrastructure grant report is provided.
The House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee on Wednesday favorably recommended HB 200, a bill that would expand the Division of Outdoor Recreation’s authority to keep certain federal recreation facilities open during a federal government shutdown and change where the division must report the outcomes of a recreation restoration and infrastructure grant.
Representative Paul Cutler, presenting HB 200, said the bill makes two primary changes: it authorizes the division to include U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service facilities in the division’s prioritized list of federal sites it could help keep open during a federal shutdown, and it adjusts the statutory reporting requirement for the Recreation Restoration Infrastructure Grant so the Division of…
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