S. 1238: Public Lands Corps Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2005

109th Congress · introduced 2005-06-14 · Public Lands and Natural Resources · Latest: Became Public Law No: 109-154.

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Where it came from: introduced 2005-06-14 · official record
Who proposed it: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
Where it stands now: Became Public Law No: 109-154. (final step reached)
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Official title

Public Lands Corps Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2005

Plain summary

Public Lands Corps Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 to: (1) allow the Secretary (the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to National Forest System land or the Secretary of the Interior with respect to Indian lands, Hawaiian home lands, or lands administered by the Department of the Interior) for purposes of entering into contracts and cooperative agreements under such Act, to give preference to qualified youth or conservation corps located in a specific area that have a substantial portion of disadvantaged members to carry out projects within the area; (2) require the Secretary, in carrying out priority projects in a specific area, to give preference to qualified youth or conservation corps located in that area that have a substantial portion of such members; (3) allow the Secretary to authorize appropriate projects to be carried out as part of a federal disaster prevention or relief effort; (4) modify requirements for the establishment and use of conservation centers; (5) authorize the Secretary to provide any appropriate services, facilities, equipment, supplies, technical assistance, oversight, monitoring, or evaluations to carry out such Act; (6) require the Secretary to provide each participant in the Public Lands Corps and each resource assistant with a living allowance established by the Secretary; (7) permit the Secretary to grant members of the Public Lands Corps credit for time served with the Corps which may be used toward future federal hiring and to provide to a former member of the Corps noncompetitive hiring status for a specified period after the date on which such member's service with the Corps is complete; and (8) provide that amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations under this Act are in addition to amounts allocated to the Corps through other federal programs or projects. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Act. Requires any amounts made available under the Act to be made available for disaster prevention or relief projects. Requires amounts appropriated for any fiscal year to carry out the Act to remain available until the end of the fiscal year following the fiscal year for which the amounts are appropriated.

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Official text

Public Lands Corps Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2005

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed Senate amended)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] · 3 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: S. 1238, Public Lands Corps Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2005 (2005-10-18); CBO cost estimate: S. 1238, Public Lands Corps Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2005 (2005-10-18)

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Appropriation: Money a legislature sets aside by law for a specific purpose. Government agencies may spend public money only as it has been appropriated.
Authorization: A law that creates or continues a government program and says what it may do, often with a suggested spending ceiling. An authorization alone does not provide money; a separate appropriation does.
Fiscal year: The 12-month period a government uses for its budget. The federal fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30 and is named for the calendar year in which it ends. Most states use July 1 to June 30.

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Sources

Congressional Research Service summary (Passed Senate amended)
Congress.gov
Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-109s1238.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/109/s>

Record fed-us-cong109-s1238 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong109 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong109