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Committee approves change to give compliant state lessees renewal preference
Summary
The committee advanced House Bill 61 to give a preference to current, compliant lessees of state trust lands at lease renewal; members amended the bill to clarify the preference applies only when the lessee "is not currently in violation" of lease terms. The measure passed unanimously, 9-0.
Representative Dalton Banks introduced House Bill 61 to the Agriculture, State & Public Lands & Water Resources Committee to codify an existing practice of giving preference to current lessees of state trust lands when leases are renewed, provided the lessee is not in violation of lease terms.
The change would make explicit that a lessee who is not currently violating lease terms — for example by subleasing without approval, missing rental payments, or failing to follow an approved grazing plan — should receive preference in renewal…
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