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HR 2898 115th Congress House Public Lands and Natural Resources Advisory bodies Education programs funding Elementary and secondary education Forests, forestry, trees Roads and highways Rural conditions and development State and local finance Transportation programs funding

RAC Reform Act of 2017

Introduced: June 13, 2017 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 11, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Jun 22, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Jun 13, 2017
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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.
Jun 13, 2017
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

RAC Reform Act of 2017

This bill amends the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 to change the official who shall establish, maintain, and appoint the members of resource advisory committees from: (1) the Secretary of Agriculture to the the applicable Regional Forester for land within the National Forest System; and (2) the Secretary of the Interior to the applicable Bureau of Land Management State Director for such portions of the revested Oregon and California Railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road grant land under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior classified as timberlands and power-site land valuable for timber that shall be managed for permanent forest production.

Any year of a member's service on such a committee, the majority of which was served during a fiscal year in which the committee's budget was less than $1 million, shall not count as a year of such member's term for purposes of the four-year term limit.

The bill reduces the number of members of each committee, as well as the number representing each specified community interest category.

What's happening now July 11, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.

 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 1 Republican 2