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Relating to restrictions on the acquisition of real property by the department of natural resources
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedMarch 3, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeMarch 3, 2025
- Done: Senate committeeMarch 5, 2025
- Skipped: Passes the SenateContinued as SF 553
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became SF 553 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 553 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 unless the purchase follows a specific conservation or recreation plan approved by the natural resource commission. Instead, the department must generally get land from people or groups who are willing to sell or donate it. Additionally, the department cannot pay more than the appraised value to a nonprofit that originally bought land at an auction.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. _____ The bill provides an exception to the restrictions on the acquisition of land. The bill allows DNR to acquire real property from a public auction or from a nonprofit corporation that acquired the real property at a public auction as long as the acquisition is in furtherance of a local or statewide conservation or recreation plan and is approved by the natural resource commission.
Senate subcommittee
Named March 3, 2025. 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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