Record of Committee Proceedings

Joint Committee on Finance

Assembly Bill 700

Relating to: eligibility requirements under the managed forest land program relating to parcel size and production of merchantable timber, management plans for managed forest lands, orders adding and withdrawing managed forest land, renewal of orders designating managed forest land, areas of managed forest lands that are open for public access, allowing managed forest lands to be used for recreational activities, regulation of cutting of timber on managed forest land and on forest croplands, withdrawal taxes and fees imposed on the withdrawal of managed forest land and yield taxes imposed for cutting timber from managed forest land, the sale or transfer of managed forest land, expiration of orders designating managed forest land, withdrawal of forest croplands that are held in trust for Indian tribes, a study of the managed forest land program, a report on exempt withdrawals from the managed forest land program and the forest cropland program, elimination of references to the woodland tax law, granting rule-making authority, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.

By Representatives Mursau and Clark; cosponsored by Senator Tiffany., by request of Wisconsin Council on Forestry

March 12, 2014           Referred to Joint Committee on Finance

April 08, 2014             Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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Joe Malkasian

Committee Clerk