No. CS/HB 441
Filed under Environment & Water.
Conservation Lands; Requires Division of State Lands to publish certain information on its website before Acquisition & Restoration Council or Board of Trustees of Internal Improvement Trust Fund meets to review proposed sale of conservation lands; requires that certain parcels proposed for exchange be appraised in accordance with certain criteria; removes provisions requiring division to submit certain requests to Acquisition & Restoration Council for review; removes provisions requiring division to provide certain recommendations to board of trustees; requires division to publish certain information on its website before council or board of trustees meets to review proposed land exchange; requires division to submit certain requests to council for review & requiring council to provide recommendations to division in certain circumstances; requires division to provide certain recommendations to board of trustees in certain circumstances; requires governing board of water management district to publish certain information on its website before meeting to review proposed sale or exchange of certain lands.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDAt least 30 days before officials meet to consider selling state conservation land, the Division of State Lands must post the parcels involved and its reasoning on its website.
The same 30-day website notice now applies to proposed land exchanges too, adding the conservation easement details and a statement on how the trade benefits the state.
Every parcel offered in one of these land exchanges must now get at least one appraisal, using valuation criteria and methods the board of trustees has separately adopted.
Water management districts face the same disclosure rule when they sell or trade their own conservation land, publishing parcels, easement terms, and their reasoning 30 days ahead of time.
AIAt least 30 days before the Acquisition and Restoration Council or the board of trustees meets on a proposed conservation-land sale, the Division of State Lands must post the parcels for sale and why they are no longer needed for conservation.
AIBefore a proposed land exchange is reviewed, the division must publish the parcels involved, the portions kept under conservation easement, and a statement on how the trade benefits the state.
AIA parcel offered in a state land-for-land conservation exchange must be appraised using criteria, techniques, and methods the board of trustees has separately adopted, a step the exchange process did not previously require.
AIA water management district governing board must publish the same kind of parcel, easement, and justification information on its website at least 30 days before it meets to approve selling or exchanging its own conservation land.