United States · Bill · S
S. 1208 (108th)
A bill to amend the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to establish a program to provide assistance to States and nonprofit organizations to preserve suburban forest land and open space and contain suburban sprawl, and for other purposes.
Introduced
9 June 2003
Last action
—
Status
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
14 January 2025
Summary
Amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to establish in the Forest Service the Suburban and Community Forestry and Open Space Program, which shall provide cost-share grants to preserve private forest land and contain suburban sprawl. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to authorize a requesting State to permit a qualifying organization to acquire one or more conservation easements to carry out the Forest Legacy Program in such State.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
3 official files
Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 9 June 2003
Introduced in Senate (PDF)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 9 June 2003
Introduced in Senate
summary · EN · 9 June 2003
Sponsors
No sponsors or actors listed by the source.
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/1208
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/s/1208