Title: PILT and SRS Certainty Act
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
PILT and SRS Certainty Act
This bill appropriates funds to carry out the Payment in Lieu of Taxes Program for the first full fiscal year after the enactment of this bill and for each of the following four fiscal years. This program compensates local governments for tax revenue lost due to tax-exempt federal lands within their boundaries.
The bill amends the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 to extend payment and project authorities for the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Program for five years. This program provides payments to states to compensate for the cost of providing services in tax-exempt federal lands within their jurisdiction.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5084 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5084

   To amend section 6906 of title 31, United States Code, to provide 
funding for the payment in lieu of taxes program for an additional five 
years, to provide a five-year extension of the Secure Rural Schools and 
   Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 23, 2018

Mr. Polis (for himself and Mr. Meadows) introduced the following bill; 
   which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in 
     addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend section 6906 of title 31, United States Code, to provide 
funding for the payment in lieu of taxes program for an additional five 
years, to provide a five-year extension of the Secure Rural Schools and 
   Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``PILT and SRS Certainty Act''.

SEC. 2. MANDATORY FUNDING FOR PILT PROGRAM.

    Section 6906 of title 31, United States Code, is amended to read as 
follows:
``Sec. 6906. Funding
    ``There is hereby appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior to 
carry out this chapter, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise 
obligated, $465,000,000 for the first full fiscal year after the date 
of the enactment of this section and for each of the four fiscal years 
thereafter.''.

SEC. 3. FIVE-YEAR EXTENSION OF SECURE RURAL SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY SELF-
              DETERMINATION ACT OF 2000 REFLECTING RECENT EXTENSION 
              COVERING FISCAL YEARS 2014 AND 2015.

    (a) Extension of Payment Authority.--The Secure Rural Schools and 
Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 is amended--
            (1) in section 101 (16 U.S.C. 7111), by striking ``2015'' 
        both places it appears and inserting ``2020'';
            (2) in section 102(b)(2)(B) (16 U.S.C. 7112(b)(2)(B)), by 
        striking ``2015'' the second place it appears and inserting 
        ``2020''; and
            (3) in section 103(d)(2) (16 U.S.C. 7113(d)(2)), by 
        striking ``2015'' and inserting ``2020''.
    (b) Extension of Special Project Authority.--Section 208 of the 
Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 
U.S.C. 7128) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``2017'' and inserting 
        ``2022''; and
            (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``2018'' and inserting 
        ``2023''.
    (c) Extension of County Project Authority.--Section 304 of the 
Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 
U.S.C. 7144) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``2017'' and inserting 
        ``2022''; and
            (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``2018'' and inserting 
        ``2023''.
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