Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-517
Sponsor: Rep. Walden, Greg [R-OR-2]
Introduced: 2005-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Authorization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
County politics and government
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational facilities
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Fire prevention
Fishery management
Forest conservation
Forest ecology
Forest fires
Forest management
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Habitat conservation
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Land use
National forests
Performance measurement
Restoration ecology
Revenue sharing
Road construction
Rural education
Transportation and Public Works
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: 
Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2005 - Amends the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 to extend the Act through FY2013.
 
Revises requirements regarding the merchantable material contracting pilot program.
 
Requires counties participating in county projects to submit a specified notification for each project for which the participating county obligated county funds. Provides for the review of such notifications.

action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-determination Reauthorization Act of 2005 - Amends the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-determination Act of 2000 to extend the Act through FY2013, including the authority for special and county projects on National Forest System and certain Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands.
 
Amends the Act to: (1) make elections by eligible counties to receive the full payment amount with respect to payments from National Forest lands for the benefit of public education and transportation or the BLM lands for the benefit of public safety, law enforcement, education, and other public purposes effective through FY2013; (2) give eligible counties the opportunity to make payment elections in writing during the last quarter of FY2006; and (3) reserve for payments specified revenues, fees, penalties, and miscellaneous receipts (exclusive of required deposits) in the event of a shortfall.
 
Amends the Act regarding: (1) resource advisory committee membership; and (2) revision of the merchantable material contracting pilot program.
 
Requires counties participating in county projects to submit to the Secretary concerned a specified written notification for each project for which the participating county obligated county funds. Requires the Secretary concerned to: (1) review such notifications; and (2) report annually to specified congressional committees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 109-117, Part I.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 109-117, Part I.
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health Discharged.
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2005-02-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2005-02-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2005-02-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Introduced in House