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2021 Legislative Review
Despite the limitations created by COVID-19, the NCFA remained steady in its advocacy efforts during 2021. The NCFA would like to
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• The Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund (ADPTF)
• Emergency response equipment for the North Carolina Forest Service
• Be Pro Be Proud — a workforce development project to promote trades and their importance to the economy
During the long session, the NCFA engaged our elected officials on a number of bills, which include:
• H.B. 141 - Promote NC Sawmills
• H.B. 228 - Attractive Nuisances
• H.B. 334 - JOBS Grants and Tax Relief
• H.B. 496 - Property Owners Rights/Tree Ordinances • H.B. 951 - Modernize Energy Generation
• S.B. 605 - NC Farm Act of 2021
H.B. 141 - Promote North Carolina Sawmills SPONSORS: Hanig, Sasser, Brody, Greene (Primary)
SUMMARY: The current draft of this legislation would allow dimension lumber that has not been grade-stamped to be used
in the construction of one- and two-family dwellings if it meets certain conditions. The NCFA and several of its member companies worked with the primary sponsor, Rep. Hanig, to ensure:
• The lumber conforms with product and inspection standards under American Softwood Lumber Standard PS 20.
• The lumber is certified by an inspector who is certified by an accredited, independent third-party agency of the American Lumber Standard Committee.
STATUS: Committee on Rules and Operations of the Senate POSITION: Neutral
H.B. 228 - Attractive Nuisances
SPONSORS: Zachary, Dixon, Watford, Yarborough (Primary)
SUMMARY: If enacted, this bill would provide that a landowner is not subject to liability for injury to a child trespasser where the injury arises from an unimproved body of water.
STATUS: Committee on Rules and Operations of the Senate POSITION: Support
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2021 Board of Directors
Todd Adams Jadie Andrews Scott Askew Stacy Bentley Keith Biggs Blair Bishop Scott Bissette Jay Boyette Jesse Burdett Doug Burleson Kenneth Cain John Cecil
Chris Charest Sam Cook
Clay Creed Charles Daniels Rudy Daughtry Tony Doster Rob Elliot Ashley Faircloth David Gadd Brett Goulding Lori Grady
Mike Harris Jason Hoyle Perry Hunt Dylan Hurley Lynn Jenkins David Johnson AJ Keating Lauren Killian Arturo Lumpkin Mike Marks Boyd McLaurin Roger Melvin Justin Moretz Zack Myers Russ Newton Wib Owen
Mike Patram
Allen Plaster Henry Randolph Jim Reavis
Bernard Rose Richard Sanders Glenn Sheehan Scott Smearman Jimmy Stockton Alexander Storm Marshall Thompson Nancy Thompson Cierra Ward
Lacy White Allen Whitesell Jerry Williams Jimmy Williams Jocelyn Wilson Andy Wolgemuth
Adams & Howell
Southern Veneer Specialty Products Jordan Lumber Company
Columbia Forest Products
Forestry Mutual Insurance Co. Bishop Forestry & Land, PLLC NCDoA & CS
NC Farm Bureau
Pactiv Evergreen
Canfor Southern Pine
Lumber River Timber Company Domtar Paper Company, LLC
H.W. Culp Lumber Company
NC State University
ZV Pate, Inc.
Domtar Paper Company
Canal Wood, LLC
Resource Management Service, LLC Pactiv Evergreen
Pine State Forestry
Satisky & Silverstein, LLP
Campbell Group
Dana Outlaw Appraisals
Canfor Southern Pine
Hunt Forest Resources
Hunt Forest Resources
Montgomery Community College Wayne Community College Weyerhaeuser Company
Summit Logging, LLC
Enviva Pellets
The Lumpkin Group
Canal Wood, LLC
Canal Wood, LLC
Toney Lumber Company
Moretz Brothers Logging, LLC Select Timber Service, Inc.
Parton Lumber Company
Southern Foresters
Edwards Wood Products
Oakey Grove Properties Inc.
GF&R Forestry Consultants, PLLC Forester
WestRock CP, LLC
Wildwood Consulting, PLLC Greenwood Resources
Domtar Paper Company
Stockton Grading & Logging, Inc. Haywood Community College New-Indy Containerboard, LLC Weyerhaeuser Company
Resource Management Service, LLC Tri-State Land & Timber, LLC
Troy Lumber Company
Select Harvesting
J.M. Williams Timber Co. Weyerhaeuser Company International Paper Co.
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