Local Government Review of Fencing Projects

The Senate sponsorship list was reduced from multiple sponsors to only Gonzales J. and Simpson, indicating other sponsors withdrew or the bill was amended to focus on these two.

The revision date changed from April 23, 2025 (3rd Reading Unamended) to April 22, 2025 (Revised on Second Reading), showing the bill's procedural status was updated to reflect Senate second reading approval.

Sponsor list expanded to include additional House and Senate sponsors (Bacon, Bird, Boesenecker, Brown, Camacho, Duran, Espenoza, Garcia, Lindsay, Lindstedt, Mabrey, Marshall, Mauro, McCormick, Phillips, Rydin, Sirota, Smith, Story, Titone, Valdez, Velasco, Woodrow for House; Ball, Bridges, Coleman, Cutter, Exum, Jodeh, Kipp, Rodriguez, Wallace, Winter F. for Senate).

Committee assignments updated to reflect Senate committee changes (Agriculture & Natural Resources added to Senate committees).

Several definitions were removed from the bill text, including definitions for 'Fence', 'Prison', 'Public School', 'Public Utility', 'Sangre de Cristo Land Grant Lands', and 'Substantially Repair'.

The legislative finding language was modified to change 'irrational and environmentally damaging' to 'environmentally damaging' when describing fencing projects.

Changed document format from final act signature format to preliminary bill format with committee amendment indicators.

Added page headers and formatting indicators (shading, underlining) to distinguish house and senate amendments.

Removed final act certification language about Governor signatures and legislative status.

Minor wording adjustment in legislative declaration changing 'environmentally damaging' to 'irrational and environmentally damaging' for fencing projects.

Added 15 new co-sponsors to the House sponsorship list (Bird, Boesenecker, Brown, Camacho, Duran, Espenoza, Garcia, Lindsay, Lindstedt, Mabrey, Marshall, Mauro, McCormick, Phillips, Rydin, Sirota, Smith, Story, Titone, Valdez, Velasco, Woodrow).

Updated header from 'ENGROSSED' to 'REENGROSSED' and changed the bill summary availability note to indicate a new summary will be available after third reading on February 6, 2025.

Changed the requirement from local governments having the ability to opt out of fencing project reviews to a requirement that they opt in to participate in the review process.

Added a specific requirement that applications must be submitted to the local government whose jurisdiction will contain the most fence when the project is complete, rather than any local government with jurisdiction.

Modified the legislative declaration to describe fencing projects as 'environmentally damaging' rather than 'irrational and environmentally damaging'.