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Wildlife:
Severance Tax Trust Fund Operational Account

Our Position: support
Bill Number: SB013
Sponsor: Representative Fischer and Senator Schwartz
Legislative Session: 2008

This bill would allow money from the severance tax fund to be appropriated to the Division of Wildlife and Division of Parks. It would also exempt appropriations made to the Division of Wildlife from the two-year reserve requirement of the operational account.

Status

01/09/08 Bill was introduced in the Senate and assigned to the Senate Agriculture Committee and the Appropriations Committee

01/31/2008 Passed Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources & Energy Refer Amended to Appropriations

04/10/08 Passed the Appropriations Committee 

04/14/08 Passed Second Reading in the Senate

04/15/08 Passed Senate Third Reading

04/15/08 Introduced in House - assigned to the House Finance and Appropriations Committees

04/23/08 Passed by the Finance Committee

04/25/08 Passed by House Appropriations Committee

04/28/08 Passed House Second Reading

04/29/08 Passed House Third Reading

05/02/08 Senate to Review House Amendments

Action Needed

Please contact your Senator and ask them to support SB013.

To find your State Senator, go to: Project Vote Smart and enter your ZIP code.

To see a full copy of the bill as a PDF, go to SB 013.

     
     

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