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Relating to restrictions on the acquisition of real property by the department of natural resources
Sponsored by the Senate Natural Resources and Environment Committee
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedMarch 3, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeMarch 3, 2025
- Done: Senate committeeMarch 5, 2025
- Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2026 session adjourned on May 3, 2026, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary The Department of Natural Resources would no longer be allowed to buy land at public auctions. Instead, the department can only get property from people or groups who choose to sell or donate it freely. If a nonprofit group bought land at an auction, the state cannot pay them more than what the land is worth.1
Read the official explanation
This bill restricts the acquisition of real property by the department of natural resources (DNR). The bill prohibits DNR from acquiring real property at a public auction. The bill authorizes DNR to only acquire property through willing donors and sellers, who shall not be under the compulsion of DNR. DNR also shall not acquire property for more than appraised value from a nonprofit corporation that purchased the property at a public auction.
Senate subcommittee
Named March 3, 2025 (as SSB 1198). On March 4, 2025 it recommended amendment and passage.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
6 written public comments to its subcommittee: March 4, 2025 (3), March 4, 2025 (3) · on the Legislature’s site
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None became law, though one got through a chamber.
- HF 2104 Relating to restrictions on the acquisition of real property by the department of natural …90th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passage · same titleCleared committee
- SF 2324 Relating to restrictions on the acquisition of real property by the department of natural …90th General Assembly · Passed Senate · very similarPassed a chamber
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