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Bill · 119th Congress · S 638

A bill to amend the Act of June 22, 1948.

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Introduced 2025-02-19Topic: budget · taxes

Summary

Summary by the Congressional Research Service

This bill prevents decreases in annual payments provided to Cook, Lake, and Saint Louis Counties in Minnesota for national forest lands in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Specifically, the bill modifies the formula created under the Thye-Blatnik Act that the Department of the Treasury uses to determine the amount of the payments. Treasury must base the payments on the highest fair appraised value, including historical fair appraised values, rather than on the fair appraised value of the land.

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Action history

DateChamberActionStatus effect
2025-10-27SenatePlaced on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 208.
2025-10-27SenateCommittee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Reported by Senator Boozman without amendment. Without written report.refer
2025-10-27Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Reported by Senator Boozman without amendment. Without written report.report
2025-10-21SenateCommittee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.refer
2025-02-19SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.refer
2025-02-19Introduced in Senateintroduce
Source: GovInfo Bill Status (Library of Congress), fetched 2026-09-11. Provisions and opinion polling arrive in a later release.