To expand the eligibility for certain forest property tax breaks, increase the size of the tax breaks to owners, double the number of acres eligible for the tax breaks from 1.2 million to 2.4 million statewide, authorize a new 2 mill property tax on property in this program that would go to proposed "Private Forestland Enhancement Fund" to subsidize private forestland management activities, and revise other details of this tax break program.   Official Text and Analysis.

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

Without amendment and with the recommendation that the bill pass.

To adopt a version of the bill that among other changes does not double the number of acres eligible for these tax breaks, but does increase eligibility by means of new exemptions from an existing 1.2 million acre cap.

To move back the date the bill goes into effect.

To require the legislature to reimburse local school districts for any foregone tax revenue resulting from these tax breaks.

To expand certain exemptions to a state wetland permit mandate, increase some wetland permit fees and reduce others, require permit denials to document their rationale and authority, authorize grants to local governments to create “wetland mitigation banks,” slightly reduce wetland regulatory burdens imposed on county drain commission projects, slightly increase the state's burden to justify restrictions on an owner's use of his or her property, prohibit the Department of Environmental Quality from imposing regulations that are beyond the scope those required by federal law, and make other changes to these land use restrictions.

To concur with the House-passed version of the bill.