HR 4705 · 117th Congress 2021–2023, ended

Treating Tribes and Counties as Good Neighbors Act

Fact sheet

Latest action · Aug 13, 2021 Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedJul 27, 2021
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Treating Tribes and Counties as Good Neighbors Act

This bill revises the Good Neighbor Authority program to modify the treatment of revenue from timber sale contracts under good neighbor agreements with the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of the Interior. (The Good Neighbor Authority permits USDA and Interior to enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with states, counties, and Indian tribes to perform forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration services on federal land managed by the Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management.)

Specifically, the bill (1) requires Indian tribes and counties to retain revenue generated from timber sales under a good neighbor agreement; and (2) allows states, counties, and Indian tribes to use such revenue for authorized restoration projects on nonfederal lands under a good neighbor agreement. (Under current law, only a state is permitted to retain the revenues, and the revenues must be used for restoration projects on federal land.)

Cosponsors 1

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Mar 31, 2022.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-WIThomas P. TiffanyMar 31, 2022

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Aug 13, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
  2. Aug 9, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.
  3. Jul 27, 2021Introduced in House
  4. Jul 27, 2021Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
S 2492Treating Tribes and Counties as Good Neighbors ActIdentical billJul 27, 2021

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Jul 27, 2021Introduced in House

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