2025 bills / H.B. 378
H.B. 378 Department of Natural Resources Funding Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
The bill directs new money into the Species Protection Account, which funds wildlife protection. It sets up new sources for that money, including county remittances tied to certain new transmission lines and centrally assessed new growth, a tax on certain wind and solar generation facilities, an assessment on renewable energy parent entities, and a share of gross receipts from a radioactive waste facility.
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Official description
- requires counties to remit to the state money calculated based on certain new transmission facilities for deposit into the Species Protection Account
- expands resources to be deposited into the Species Protection Account
- requires reporting by the Division of Wildlife Resources and a study by the Office of Energy Development
- addresses the payment of a tax on gross receipts of a radioactive waste facility derived from the disposal of concentrated depleted uranium and containerized waste, including having certain revenue be deposited into the Species Protection Account
- imposes a tax related to certain wind or solar electric generation facilities to be deposited into the Species Protection Account
- imposes an assessment on renewable energy parent entities to be deposited into the Species Protection Account
- modifies calculation of centrally assessed new growth
- requires counties to remit to the state a portion of centrally assessed new growth for deposit into the Species Protection Account
- authorizes rulemaking
- makes technical and conforming amendments
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Every vote
- 11 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 1 no, 3 absentHouse Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how
- 58 yes, 12 no, 5 absentFinal House vote · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 3 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to change the bill · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how
- 2 yes, 1 no, 4 absentSenate Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how
- 20 yes, 6 no, 3 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how
- 59 yes, 8 no, 8 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how