Amend the bill by inserting after the title and before the enacting clause the following:

Amend the bill in section 2 in §1808 in the first paragraph in the last line (page 1, line 21 in L.D.) by striking out the following: " 2018" and inserting the following: ' 2021'

Amend the bill by inserting after section 3 the following:

Amend the bill in section 5 in paragraph G in the last line (page 2, line 2 in L.D.) by striking out the following: " and"

Amend the bill in section 6 in paragraph H in the last line (page 2, line 7 in L.D.) by striking out the following: " growth." and inserting the following: ' growth; and'

Amend the bill by inserting after section 6 the following:

Amend the bill in section 7 in §1859 in the first line (page 2, line 9 in L.D.) by inserting after the following: " logging" the following: ' and forestry'

Amend the bill in section 7 in §1859 in subsection 1 in the 5th line (page 2, line 14 in L.D.) by inserting after the following: " new loggers" the following: ' and foresters'

Amend the bill in section 7 in §1859 by striking out all of subsections 2 and 3 (page 2, lines 18 to 30 in L.D.) and inserting the following:

Amend the bill in section 9 in the last line (page 3, line 27 in L.D.) by inserting after the following: "lists." the following: 'After that meeting, the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over public reserved lands matters shall rank the projects on the priority lists submitted by the bureau and, if funding is available, make recommendations to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over appropriations and financial affairs for funding projects.'

Amend the bill by striking out all of section 11 and inserting the following:

Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section number to read consecutively.

SUMMARY

This amendment:

1. Changes the date in the bill that a detailed forest inventory of the State’s public reserved lands and nonreserved public lands must be conducted by from March 15, 2018 to March 15, 2021 and keeps the requirement that an inventory must be done every 5 years thereafter;

2. Reenacts a provision of law regarding expenditures from the Public Reserved Lands Management Fund in the statute governing revenue from public reserved lands that states that money may not be expended without allocation by the Legislature. The allocations must be approved by the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over appropriations and financial affairs;

3. Adds a list and description of roads built and roads maintained in the preceding fiscal year and a list and description of roads to be built and roads to be maintained in the succeeding fiscal year to the items that must be included in the annual report dealing with public reserved lands submitted by the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Bureau of Parks and Lands;

4. Adds forestry to the programs eligible to receive funding under the educational grant program established in the bill;

5. Adds career and technical education programs to the types of programs that are eligible to apply for an educational grant related to logging and forestry;

6. Removes language specifying that educational grants are only one-time grants, specifies that those grants may be given to an approved eligible educational program if funds are available and provides that the total distributions from the Public Reserved Lands Management Fund under the grant program may not exceed $300,000 in the state budget biennium; and

7. Requires the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over public reserved lands matters, after public input, to rank the statewide priority list of recreational infrastructure projects for the State's public reserved lands and the statewide priority list of projects under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 for the State's public reserved lands submitted by the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Bureau of Parks and Lands and to make recommendations, if funding is available, to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over appropriations and financial affairs for funding projects.

This amendment adds an appropriations and allocations section.