Funding Local Schools Act

Bill: 114-hr-6180
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Love, Mia B. [R-UT-4]
Introduced: 2016-09-27
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education

Land transfers

Land use and conservation

Utah
Latest action: action_date: 2016-10-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-09-27
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Funding Local Schools Act</b></p> <p>This bill allows the state of Utah to select lands under the administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) of the Department of the Interior and identified as available for disposal by land exchange in the Record of Decision for the Pony Express Resource Management Plan and Rangeland Program Summary for Utah County, as amended by the Pony Express Plan Amendment (November 1997), in fulfillment of certain land grants made to Utah upon being admitted as a state, including for the establishment of certain state institutions, including certain local schools, under the Act of July 16, 1894, without further land use planning action by the BLM. </p> <p>The criteria listed in Decision 3 of the Lands Program of the resource management plan shall not apply to any lands selected by Utah pursuant to this bill. </p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6180 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 27, 2016 Mrs. Love (for herself, Mr. Zeldin , and Mrs. Lummis ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To authorize the State of Utah to select lands that are available for disposal under the Pony Express Resource Management Plan to be used for the support and benefit of State institutions, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Funding Local Schools Act . 2. Authorization (a) In general The State of Utah may select any lands owned by the United States, under the administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, and identified as available for disposal by land exchange in the Record of Decision for the Pony Express Resource Management Plan and Rangeland Program Summary for Utah County (January 1990), as amended by the Pony Express Plan Amendment (November 1997), in fulfillment of the land grants made in sections 6, 8, and 12 of the Act of July 16, 1894 (28 Stat. 107), without further land use planning action by the Bureau of Land Management. (b) Application The criteria listed in Decision 3 of the Lands Program of the resource management plan described in subsection (a) shall not apply to any land selected under subsection (a).