Bill Text: CA AJR9 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Federal Secure Rural Schools and Community

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-05 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 48, Statutes of 2013. [AJR9 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AJR9-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AJR 9	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 4, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dahle
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bigelow  , Chesbro,  and
Logue)
   (Coauthors: Senators Berryhill and Gaines)

                        JANUARY 31, 2013

   Relative to the federal Secure Rural Schools and Community
Self-Determination Act of 2000.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AJR 9, as amended, Dahle. Federal Secure Rural Schools and
Community Self-Determination Act of 2000: extension.
   This measure would urge the 113th Congress to reauthorize and fund
the federal Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination
Act of 2000.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, From 1908 to 2000, counties in the United States received
25 percent of the revenues generated on national forest lands in
lieu of lost tax revenues that could have been generated had these
lands remained in private hands; and
   WHEREAS, In the 1990s, the volume and value of timber harvested on
national forest lands was dramatically reduced, which led Congress
to enact the federal Secure Rural Schools and Community
Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. Sec. 7101 et seq.), which
provided a six-year guarantee payment option that was independent of
the revenue generated on the national forest lands; and
   WHEREAS, The Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination
Act of 2000, which has been extended several times, most recently by
the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21)
(Public Law 112-141), expired on September 30, 2012, and creates a
lapse in funding to critical programs in schools and counties across
the United States, including California, in the coming years; and
   WHEREAS, Rural schools are dependent on federal revenue-sharing
programs, including federal forest payments, for maintaining vital
educational services and programs, and to ensure a quality education
for all students; and
   WHEREAS, Many of California's county public works programs will be
crippled without stable, predictable, long-term funding from the
act, causing the local road network to suffer long-term degradation
and putting communities at risk for public safety emergencies due to
cuts in staffing and operational activities; and
   WHEREAS, A number of efforts have been made and are continuing to
be made in both the United States House of Representatives and the
United States Senate to reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools and
Community Self-Determination Act of 2000; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly and the Senate of the State of
California, jointly, That the Legislature of the State of California
respectfully urges the 113th Congress to reauthorize and 
fully  fund the federal Secure Rural Schools and Community
Self-Determination Act of 2000 to provide a long-term, stable source
of funding for schools and counties to maintain vital programs prior
to September 30, 2013, to avoid any interruption in county services
and school operations; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to
the Majority Leader of the Senate, and to each Senator and
Representative from California in the Congress of the United States.