S.B. 20 Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Technical Changes: transcript

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, HB or Senate Bill 20, excuse me, was a committee bill in the Natural Resources Ag and Environment, uh, interim committee this summer and fall. Uh, we did a lot of work on this, uh, staff, uh, made some cleanup changes. As you can see, it's a very long bill. Uh, natural resources code had not been updated for several years. I even hate to run a bill this long, but it is a cleanup bill. Just like we heard on the DWR one, which was cleaned up last year, uh, I'd be happy to try to answer any questions, but this bill passed unanimously after a lot of work and discussion out of our interim committee, uh, unanimously, uh, representative Stratton has passed it, uh, out of the Senate and it's come to this committee for the house. And I'm the house floor sponsor. Uh, it, you know, it addresses the obsolete programs and, and makes quite a few technical changes to the statutes, uh, within the purview of, uh, the, that interim committee and, uh, highlighted provisions. You can see what, what it does, it repeals a ton of stuff that was outdated, uh, and requires some annual reports to the legislative committee to be submitted no later than October 1st. Everything else you can see a lot of crossouts and red lines are, are repeal items, uh, that were repealed after discussion and, and work with the drafting attorney. And, uh, so with that, you know, Mr. Chair, I would entertain any questions from the committee?

And I see Representative Monson. Yeah, I'd move that. We recommend Senate Bill 20 out of, um, our committee with a favorable recommendation.

and, and have worked on some of these bills as well. It's just cleaning things up, putting old stuff, getting rid of some things clean up. No. So I I it's a good bill. Okay. It's a good bill. Okay.

Thank you Mr. President. Uh, this piece of legislation worked on by the, during the, during the interim, uh, great work by our staff. They do such a great job for us, but, uh, this is, it's a long bill as presented almost 90 pages, but actually reduces, there's a lot of reductions in our code through these amendments. Uh, addressing and repealing outdated reports, sections and processes, two changes that involved, it updates the BLM land lease or sales process line 1736 to 1820. And also where there has been a report required to give, uh, puts a deadline about October 1st of each year to make that, uh, report available. That's my presentation. Mr. President.

Thank you. With that again, expression of appreciation to our staff and, and the great professionals we have working with us and, and, and, uh, helping us. And with that, I move the question.

Baldy Aye. Lewin Aye. Bramer Aye. Bus Comore Escamilla Aye. Fillmore Aye. Grover Harper Hankins Ipson Johnson. Quan McKay Aye. Mikel Aye. Milner Musselman Owens Aye. Pitcher Aye. Plum. A Rebe a sandal. Aye. Stevenson Aye. Stratton Vickers Aye. Weiler Aye. Wilson Aye. Winterton Aye.

Thank you Mr. Speaker. Uh, this bill is just a code reduction. Uh, we had a, a lot of technical changes that were outdated. Uh, it re it uh, removes the language related to the BLM on line 1736 through 1820. Uh, the purpose of this was to remove, uh, obsolete sections within the purview of natural resources, ag and Environment and other legislative committees. It doesn't make any changes except for removing obsolete sections. And it requires a report to be written and submitted by August 31st each year. This is the first, uh, technical change cleanup bill that we've had in code in that committee for a long time. So, um, I apologize for the length, but most of it is boilerplate language. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.