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Commissioner says proposed HB 2141 could deliver roughly $386,400 to local taxing bodies from recent timber sales
Summary
Commissioner Paul Heimel reported that House Bill 2141, if enacted, would share a portion of state forest timber and gas-lease revenue with local taxing bodies; based on recent timber-sale receipts, Heimel estimated Potter County-area localities could receive about $386,400.
Commissioner Paul Heimel told the Potter County Commissioners on May 28 that House Bill 2141, introduced by Representative Causer, would allocate a share of revenue from state forest timber sales and gas leases to townships, school districts and counties.
Heimel reported that timber sales on state forest land over the past eight weeks totaled more than $1.9 million statewide and said that, applying the distribution formulas in the pending bill, the local share for jurisdictions with large amounts of state land would be about $386,400 from those sales alone. Heimel framed the proposal as “a significant step for counties in Pennsylvania such as Potter” that contain a large volume of tax-exempt state land (minutes notation; no direct quote given).
The report to the board was informational; the minutes do not record a formal motion or vote on a county position regarding HB 2141. The commissioners did not record further discussion, amendment or a formal directive to staff at the May 28 meeting. The bill remains a state-level proposal; any concrete distribution would require enactment and administrative implementation at the state level.
The meeting minutes list Representative Causer only as the bill sponsor; the transcript does not record Representative Causer speaking at the Potter County meeting. No fiscal-impact analysis beyond Heimel’s stated calculation appears in the minutes, and the county did not adopt a resolution or take a formal vote on the bill during the session.
