Promoting a resilient and healthy Black Hills forest through active forest management and retention of the current forest products industry.
This bill is a concurrent resolution that formally recognizes the importance of active forest management for the Black Hills in South Dakota. It states that managing forests through activities like harvesting timber and pre-commercial treatments is necessary to reduce wildfire risks and control mountain pine beetle epidemics. The resolution also emphasizes the need to support the local forest products industry by encouraging federal and state agencies to increase these management efforts. While it does not create new laws or change funding, it serves to express the Senate's position on these forest health and economic issues.
Bill status
passed both
4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Feb 2025
House Passage
Feb 2025
Governor
Introduced Feb 20, 2025
Last action Feb 21, 2025
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Floor votes · Senate Feb 19, 2025 · House Feb 21, 2025
How they voted
32–2
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 35
Feb 19, 2025
D
Democratic3
66% Nay
R
Republican32
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
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Actions timeline
Total actions
9
Key actions
4
Committee
1
Feb 21, 2025
Lower · Passed
House of Representatives Concurred in Resolution , Passed, YEAS 63, NAYS 6 H.J. 359
lower
Feb 20, 2025
Introduced
First read in House and referral to committee waived pursuant to JR 6D-1 H.J. 342
lower
Feb 19, 2025
Upper · Passed
Senate Adopt Resolution , Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 2 S.J. 303
upper
Feb 13, 2025
Upper · Passed
Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
upper
Feb 13, 2025
Upper · Passed
Agriculture and Natural Resources Adopt Resolution , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 0
upper
Feb 6, 2025
Committee
Referred to S.J. 195
upper
11 primary · 0 co-sponsors
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