Title: A bill to extend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000.
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
This bill extends the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 through FY2017, including provisions concerning secure payments to eligible states, territories, and counties containing federal land.
The bill: (1) sets forth special rules for state and county payments for FY2016, and (2) requires all FY2016 payments to be made within 45 days of enactment of this bill.
No funds made available to eligible counties under such Act may be used in lieu of, or to otherwise offset, a state funding source for a local school, facility, or educational purpose.
The merchantable timber contracting pilot program is repealed.
The bill extends through FY2019 the authority under such Act to initiate special projects on such federal lands and certain county activities.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1027 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1027

To extend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act 
                                of 2000.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 3, 2017

Mr. Hatch (for himself, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Crapo, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Risch, 
Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Daines, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Gardner, Mrs. Feinstein, Ms. 
   Murkowski, Mr. Tester, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Bennet, and Mr. Merkley) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
               Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To extend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act 
                                of 2000.

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

SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF SECURE RURAL SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY SELF-
              DETERMINATION ACT OF 2000.

    (a) Secure Payments for States and Counties Containing Federal 
Land.--
            (1) Secure payments.--
                    (A) In general.--Section 101 of the Secure Rural 
                Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 
                (16 U.S.C. 7111) is amended, in subsections (a) and 
                (b), by striking ``2015'' each place it appears and 
                inserting ``2017''.
                    (B) Special rule for fiscal year 2016 payments.--
                Section 101 of the Secure Rural Schools and Community 
                Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7111) is 
                amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Special Rule for Fiscal Year 2016 Payments.--
            ``(1) State payment.--If an eligible county in a State that 
        will receive a share of the State payment for fiscal year 2016 
        has already received, or will receive, a share of the 25-
        percent payment for fiscal year 2016 distributed to the State 
        before the date of enactment of this subsection, the amount of 
        the State payment shall be reduced by the amount of the share 
        of the eligible county of the 25-percent payment.
            ``(2) County payment.--If an eligible county that will 
        receive a county payment for fiscal year 2016 has already 
        received a 50-percent payment for fiscal year 2016, the amount 
        of the county payment shall be reduced by the amount of the 50-
        percent payment.
            ``(3) Prompt payment.--Not later than 45 days after the 
        date of enactment of this subsection, the Secretary of the 
        Treasury shall make all payments under this title for fiscal 
        year 2016.''.
            (2) Payments to states and counties.--
                    (A) Election to receive payment amount.--Section 
                102(b) of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-
                Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7112(b)) is 
                amended--
                            (i) in paragraph (1), by striking 
                        subparagraph (C) and inserting the following:
                    ``(C) Payments for fiscal years 2014 through 
                2017.--The election otherwise required by subparagraph 
                (A) shall not apply for each of fiscal years 2014 
                through 2017.''; and
                            (ii) in paragraph (2)--
                                    (I) in subparagraph (A), by 
                                striking ``fiscal years 2014 and 2015'' 
                                and inserting ``each of fiscal years 
                                2014 through 2017''; and
                                    (II) in subparagraph (B), by 
                                striking ``2015'' and inserting 
                                ``2017''.
                    (B) Expenditure rules for eligible counties.--
                Section 102(d) of the Secure Rural Schools and 
                Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 
                7112(d)) is amended--
                            (i) in paragraph (1), by striking 
                        subparagraph (E) and inserting the following:
                    ``(E) Payments for fiscal years 2014 through 
                2017.--The election made by an eligible county under 
                subparagraph (B), (C), or (D) for fiscal year 2013, or 
                deemed to be made by the county under paragraph (3)(B) 
                for that fiscal year, shall be effective for each of 
                fiscal years 2014 through 2017.''; and
                            (ii) in paragraph (3)--
                                    (I) in subparagraph (B)(ii), by 
                                striking ``purpose described in section 
                                202(b)'' and inserting ``purposes 
                                described in section 202(b), section 
                                203(c), or section 204(a)(5)''; and
                                    (II) by striking subparagraph (C) 
                                and inserting the following:
                    ``(C) Payments for fiscal years 2014 through 
                2017.--This paragraph does not apply for each of fiscal 
                years 2014 through 2017.''.
                    (C) Treatment as supplemental funding.--Section 102 
                of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-
                Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7112) is amended 
                by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Treatment as Supplemental Funding.--None of the funds made 
available to an eligible county under this Act may be used in lieu of, 
or to otherwise offset, a State funding source for a local school, 
facility, or educational purpose.''.
                    (D) Distribution of payments to eligible 
                counties.--Section 103(d)(2) of the Secure Rural 
                Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 
                (16 U.S.C. 7113(d)(2)) is amended by striking ``2015'' 
                and inserting ``2017''.
    (b) Continuation of Authority To Conduct Special Projects on 
Federal Land.--
            (1) Repeal of contracting pilot program.--Section 204(e) of 
        the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act 
        of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7124(e)) is amended by striking paragraph 
        (3).
            (2) Resource advisory committees.--Section 205(a)(4) of the 
        Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 
        2000 (16 U.S.C. 7125(a)(4)) is amended by striking ``2012'' 
        each place it appears and inserting ``2017''.
            (3) Availability of project funds.--Section 207(d)(2) of 
        the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act 
        of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7127(d)(2)) is amended by striking 
        ``subparagraph (B)'' and inserting ``subparagraph (B)(i), 
        (B)(ii),''.
            (4) Termination of authority.--Section 208 of the Secure 
        Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 
        U.S.C. 7128) is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (a), by striking ``2017'' and 
                inserting ``2019''; and
                    (B) in subsection (b), by striking ``2018'' and 
                inserting ``2020''.
    (c) Termination of 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 
        ``2019''; and
            (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``2018'' and inserting 
        ``2020''.
    (d) Offset.--It is the sense of the Senate that the costs of 
carrying out this section and the amendments made by this section will 
be offset.
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