Plain English Breakdown
The bill summary text and official digest provide limited information on fiscal impact, leaving room for uncertainty regarding exact financial outcomes.
Historical Sites and Preservation Act
This bill allows local historical boards to contract with farmers for agricultural use of land in historic sites and requires them to report on how proceeds from these contracts are used.
What This Bill Does
- Allows local historical boards to make agreements with farmers to farm crops or harvest hay on land that is part of a historical site, depending on the size of the land.
- Requires all money earned by local historical boards through these farming agreements to be spent on preserving historic sites and structures managed by the boards.
- Asks local historical boards to send an annual report to the Tennessee Historical Commission about their farming contracts and how they used the money from those contracts.
Who It Names or Affects
- Local historical boards
- Farmers who want to grow crops or harvest hay on land within historical sites
- The Tennessee Historical Commission
Terms To Know
- local historical board
- A governmental entity established by state and local law authorized to oversee and promote the preservation of historic sites and structures within its jurisdiction, that receives assistance from the Tennessee Historical Commission to establish their own programs, and operates under ordinances providing an additional layer of protection for designated historic properties or districts.
- farmer
- A person engaged in growing crops or harvesting naturally grown products of the soil to be sold or consumed.
Limits and Unknowns
- The exact amount of extra money local governments will receive from leasing land is hard to predict due to multiple unknown factors.
- It's not clear how much this bill will cost or save in total.