Introduced in the Senate on February 26, 2004, to revise the composition of the board of the Michigan forest finance authority to include representatives of forest products industries. The board governs a state forest development fund. The bill also revises the uses of that fund to include payments in lieu of taxes to local governments on state forestland, maintenance of certification of sustainable forestry standards in the state forest, and assistance to private landowners for forest management activities. The bill is part of a legislative package comprised of Senate Bills 1022 to 1024, which would require state forest management to be based on sustainable forestry principles, and requires the state to seek forest certification from an independent third party organization. House Bills 5552 to 5554 are the same bills
The vote was 26 in favor, 11 opposed and 1 not voting
(Senate Roll Call 264 at Senate Journal 44)
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