No. CS/SB 546
Filed under Environment & Water.
Conservation Lands; Requiring the Division of State Lands to publish certain information on its website before the Acquisition and Restoration Council or the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund meets to review the proposed sale of conservation lands; requiring that certain parcels proposed for exchange be appraised in accordance with certain criteria; requiring the governing board of a water management district to publish certain information on its website before meeting to review the proposed sale or exchange of certain lands, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDBefore the state considers selling conservation land, the Division of State Lands must now post the parcels and its reason for calling them no longer needed for conservation at least 30 days ahead of the review meeting.
The same 30-day public notice applies before a state land exchange goes to a vote: parcels on both sides, what portion gets a permanent conservation easement, and a statement of the conservation benefit must all be posted first.
Any parcel proposed for a land exchange with the state must now also get at least one appraisal that follows the board of trustees' own adopted appraisal criteria, techniques, and methods.
Water management districts face the identical 30-day public-notice duty before their governing boards vote to sell or exchange land no longer needed for conservation purposes.
AIAt least 30 days before the Acquisition and Restoration Council or the board of trustees meets to review a proposed sale of conservation land, the Division of State Lands must publish the parcels for sale and its reason for calling them no longer needed for conservation.
AIBefore the council or board of trustees can review a proposed land exchange, the Division of State Lands must post both sides' parcels, which portions get a permanent conservation easement, and a statement of the conservation benefit the exchange produces.
AIBefore a water management district's governing board meets to review selling or exchanging conservation land, the district must publish the parcels involved, any conservation-easement portion, and its reason the land is no longer needed for conservation.
AIEvery parcel offered for a land exchange under this subsection must now get at least one appraisal, and that appraisal must follow the criteria, techniques, and methods the board of trustees has already adopted.