Introduced
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To impose a new licensure mandate on professional foresters (styled by the bill as registration), with a $200 fee, regulations, education and experience requirements, and more. The bill would create a state board comprised of officials and individuals currently in this or related businesses, which would devise specific rules, requirements and restrictions. The mandate would be in the state natural resources and environment law, not the state occupations code. This is related to new procedures for getting property tax breaks on small forestland parcels in a <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2015-SB-651">2016 law</a> that required property owners to engage the services of a forester to apply.
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Passed in the House 98 to 10 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the bill pass.
Passed in the Senate 32 to 2 (details)
To impose a new licensure mandate on professional foresters (styled by the bill as registration), with a $200 fee, regulations, education and experience requirements, and more. The bill would create a state board comprised of officials and individuals currently in this or related businesses, which would devise specific rules, requirements and restrictions. The mandate would be in the state natural resources and environment law, not the state occupations code. This is related to new procedures for getting property tax breaks on small forestland parcels in a <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2015-SB-651">2016 law</a> that required property owners to engage the services of a forester to apply.
