2025 bills / H.B. 103
H.B. 103 State Land Access Road Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
The bill requires the state Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office and the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration to identify certain roads on state and trust lands and record notice of them with county recorders, exempting class A, B, and C roads. It also requires the Division of Wildlife Resources to identify roads in wildlife management areas, bars it from permanently closing a road without county legislative approval, keeps title to abandoned class D roads with the state, and sets a process for abandoning class D roads or R.S. 2477 rights-of-way.
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Official description
- requires the Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office (PLPCO) and the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) to identify certain roads located on school and institutional trust lands and state lands, with initial focus within certain counties
- requires PLPCO and SITLA to record with the relevant county recorder's office notice of the roads relevant to state lands and school and institutional trust lands
- exempts class A, class B, and class C roads from the notice requirements
- provides requirements for the Division of Wildlife Resources to identify roads within wildlife management areas
- provides that the Division of Wildlife Resources may not permanently close a road without consent of the legislative body of the county in which the road is located
- codifies a provision to ensure that title to a class D road abandoned by a county remains with the state, and provides a process for abandonment of a class D road or R.S. 2477 right-of-way
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Every vote
- 9 yes, 0 no, 1 absentHouse Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 14, 2025Who voted how
- 9 yes, 0 no, 1 absentHouse Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 14, 2025Who voted how
- 61 yes, 8 no, 6 absentFinal House vote · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 1 no, 2 absentSenate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how
- 24 yes, 1 no, 4 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how