A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide supplemental funding and other services that are necessary to assist certain local school districts in the State of California in providing educational services for students attending schools located within Yosemite National Park, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to adjust the boundaries of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, to adjust the boundaries of Redwood National Park, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-136
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Appropriations
Boundaries
California
Concessions
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal employees
Federal office buildings
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Impact aid
Infrastructure
Land transfers
Maps
National parks
National recreation areas
School districts
Secondary education
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation engineering
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide funds for FY2006-FY2009 to the Bass Lake Joint Union Elementary School District and the Mariposa Unified School District in California for educational services for students who: (1) are dependents of persons engaged in the administration, operation, and maintenance of Yosemite National Park; or (2) live within or near the Park upon Federal property.
 
Terminates the Secretary's authority to make such payments if the State of California or local education agencies do not continue to provide funding to the schools in those school districts at per student levels that are no less than the amount provided in fiscal year 2005. 
Sets forth limitations on the use and amount of such funds, including a maximum limit of $400,000 on payments in any fiscal year. Prohibits payments under this Act from coming from: (1) fees under the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965; (2) the recreational fee demonstration program; (3) the national park passport program; and (4) emergency appropriations for Yosemite flood recovery. 
Amends the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to allow certain facilities to be located outside the boundaries of Yosemite National Park. 
Rancho Corral de Tierra Golden Gate National Recreation Area Boundary Adjustment Act - Modifies the boundaries of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in California to include specified additional lands. Allows the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain of those lands only from a willing seller.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 

Title I: Yosemite National Park Authorized Payments 
- (Sec. 101) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide funds for FY2006-FY2009 to the Bass Lake Joint Union Elementary School District and the Mariposa Unified School District in California for educational services for students who: (1) are dependents of persons engaged in the administration, operation, and maintenance of Yosemite National Park; or (2) live within or near the Park upon Federal property.
 
Terminates the Secretary's authority to make such payments if the State of California or local education agencies do not continue to provide funding to the schools in those school districts at per student levels that at least equal to the amount provided in FY 2005. 
Sets forth limitations on the use and amount of such funds, including a maximum limit of $400,000 on payments in any fiscal year. Prohibits the use of funds to make payments under this Act from the following sources: (1) any law authorizing the collection or expenditure of entrance or use fees at units of the National Park System; (2) any unexpended receipts collected through the recreational fee demonstration program or the national park passport program; and (3) emergency appropriations for Yosemite flood recovery. 
Allows the Secretary to use an authorized funding source to make payments only if the funding available to Yosemite National Park from such source (after subtracting any payments to the school districts) is greater than or equal to the amount made available to the Park for the prior fiscal year, or in FY 2005, whichever is greater. 
(Sec. 102) Amends the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to allow certain facilities to be located outside the boundaries of Yosemite National Park. 

Title II: Rancho Corral De Tierra Golden Gate National Recreation Area Boundary Adjustment 
- Rancho Corral de Tierra Golden Gate National Recreation Area Boundary Adjustment Act - (Sec. 202) Modifies the boundaries of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in California to include specified additional lands. Allows the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain of those lands only from a willing seller.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 

Title I: Yosemite National Park Authorized Payments 
- (Sec. 101) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide funds for FY2006-FY2009 to the Bass Lake Joint Union Elementary School District and the Mariposa Unified School District in California for educational services for students who: (1) are dependents of persons engaged in the administration, operation, and maintenance of Yosemite National Park; or (2) live within or near the Park upon Federal property.
 
Terminates the Secretary's authority to make such payments if the State of California or local education agencies do not continue to provide funding to the schools in those school districts at per student levels that at least equal to the amount provided in FY2005. 
Sets forth limitations on the use and amount of such funds, including a maximum limit of $400,000 on payments in any fiscal year. Prohibits the use of funds to make payments under this Act from the following sources: (1) any law authorizing the collection or expenditure of entrance or use fees at units of the National Park System; (2) any unexpended receipts collected through the recreational fee demonstration program or the national park passport program; and (3) emergency appropriations for Yosemite flood recovery. 
Allows the Secretary to use an authorized funding source to make payments only if the funding available to Yosemite National Park from such source (after subtracting any payments to the school districts) is greater than or equal to the amount made available to the Park for the prior fiscal year, or in FY2005, whichever is greater. 
(Sec. 102) Amends the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to allow certain facilities to be located outside the boundaries of Yosemite National Park. 

Title II: Rancho Corral De Tierra Golden Gate National Recreation Area Boundary Adjustment 
- Rancho Corral de Tierra Golden Gate National Recreation Area Boundary Adjustment Act - (Sec. 202) Modifies the boundaries of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in California to include specified additional lands. Allows the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain of those lands only from a willing seller. 
 

Title III: Redwood National Park Boundary Adjustment 
- Redwood National Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2005 - (Sec. 302) Revises the boundaries of the Redwood National Park in California. Requires that the map of the revised boundaries be placed on file and be available for public inspection in offices of the National Park Service and that such map be provided by the Secretary of the Interior to officers of Del Norte and Humboldt Counties, California. 
 
Increases to 133,000 acres the maximum acreage of the Park.

action_date: 2005-12-06
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the Senate on July 26, 2005. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 

Title I: Yosemite National Park Authorized Payments 
- (Sec. 101) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide funds for FY2006-FY2009 to the Bass Lake Joint Union Elementary School District and the Mariposa Unified School District in California for educational services for students who: (1) are dependents of persons engaged in the administration, operation, and maintenance of Yosemite National Park; or (2) live within or near the Park upon Federal property.
 
Terminates the Secretary's authority to make such payments if the State of California or local education agencies do not continue to provide funding to the schools in those school districts at per student levels that at least equal to the amount provided in FY2005. 
Sets forth limitations on the use and amount of such funds, including a maximum limit of $400,000 on payments in any fiscal year. Prohibits the use of funds to make payments under this Act from the following sources: (1) any law authorizing the collection or expenditure of entrance or use fees at units of the National Park System; (2) any unexpended receipts collected through the recreational fee demonstration program or the national park passport program; and (3) emergency appropriations for Yosemite flood recovery. 
Allows the Secretary to use an authorized funding source to make payments only if the funding available to Yosemite National Park from such source (after subtracting any payments to the school districts) is greater than or equal to the amount made available to the Park for the prior fiscal year, or in FY2005, whichever is greater. 
(Sec. 102) Amends the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to allow certain facilities to be located outside the boundaries of Yosemite National Park. 

Title II: Rancho Corral De Tierra Golden Gate National Recreation Area Boundary Adjustment 
- Rancho Corral de Tierra Golden Gate National Recreation Area Boundary Adjustment Act - (Sec. 202) Modifies the boundaries of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in California to include specified additional lands. Allows the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain of those lands only from a willing seller. 
 

Title III: Redwood National Park Boundary Adjustment 
- Redwood National Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2005 - (Sec. 302) Revises the boundaries of the Redwood National Park in California. Requires that the map of the revised boundaries be placed on file and be available for public inspection in offices of the National Park Service and that such map be provided by the Secretary of the Interior to officers of Del Norte and Humboldt Counties, California. 
 
Increases to 133,000 acres the maximum acreage of the Park.

action_date: 2005-12-20
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the Senate on July 26, 2005. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 

Title I: Yosemite National Park Authorized Payments 
- (Sec. 101) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide funds for FY2006-FY2009 to the Bass Lake Joint Union Elementary School District and the Mariposa Unified School District in California for educational services for students who: (1) are dependents of persons engaged in the administration, operation, and maintenance of Yosemite National Park; or (2) live within or near the Park upon Federal property.
 
Terminates the Secretary's authority to make such payments if the State of California or local education agencies do not continue to provide funding to the schools in those school districts at per student levels that at least equal to the amount provided in FY2005. 
Sets forth limitations on the use and amount of such funds, including a maximum limit of $400,000 on payments in any fiscal year. Prohibits the use of funds to make payments under this Act from the following sources: (1) any law authorizing the collection or expenditure of entrance or use fees at units of the National Park System; (2) any unexpended receipts collected through the recreational fee demonstration program or the national park passport program; and (3) emergency appropriations for Yosemite flood recovery. 
Allows the Secretary to use an authorized funding source to make payments only if the funding available to Yosemite National Park from such source (after subtracting any payments to the school districts) is greater than or equal to the amount made available to the Park for the prior fiscal year, or in FY2005, whichever is greater. 
(Sec. 102) Amends the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to allow certain facilities to be located outside the boundaries of Yosemite National Park. 

Title II: Rancho Corral De Tierra Golden Gate National Recreation Area Boundary Adjustment 
- Rancho Corral de Tierra Golden Gate National Recreation Area Boundary Adjustment Act - (Sec. 202) Modifies the boundaries of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in California to include specified additional lands. Allows the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain of those lands only from a willing seller. 
 

Title III: Redwood National Park Boundary Adjustment 
- Redwood National Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2005 - (Sec. 302) Revises the boundaries of the Redwood National Park in California. Requires that the map of the revised boundaries be placed on file and be available for public inspection in offices of the National Park Service and that such map be provided by the Secretary of the Interior to officers of Del Norte and Humboldt Counties, California. 
 
Increases to 133,000 acres the maximum acreage of the Park.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Became Public Law No: 109-131.
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Became Public Law No: 109-131.
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2005-12-12
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2005-12-12
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2005-12-06
text: Cleared for White House.
action_date: 2005-12-06
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-12-06
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H11049-11050)
action_date: 2005-12-06
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H11049-11050)
action_date: 2005-12-06
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 136.
action_date: 2005-12-06
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H11049-11051)
action_date: 2005-12-06
text: Mr. Radanovich moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2005-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9018-9052; text: CR S9049-9051)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S9018-9052; text: CR S9049-9051)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S9018-9052; text of  measure as reported in Senate: CR S9049-9050)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 95.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici with amendments. With written report No. 109-63.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici with amendments. With written report No. 109-63.
action_date: 2005-02-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S350-351)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S349-350)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate

Enacted as: number: 109-131