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Read. Follow. Verify.Ohio Bill Directs Federal Mineral Royalties to Counties of Origin and Separates Forest Timber Funds
Last action · November 5, 2025: Referred to EnergySponsor: Kristina Roegner
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What This Bill Would Do
Ohio Senate Bill 312 requires the state treasurer to deposit payments into a newly established clearing fund and transfer the exact attributed amounts to the within thirty days. The measure limits how counties can spend these funds to planning, public facilities construction and maintenance, and public services, while formally separating these mineral payments from national forest timber revenue distributions.
Counties where oil, gas, and mineral extraction occurs on federal lands will receive direct allocations of federal royalty funds within a strict thirty-day window, providing new local revenue streams restricted to public infrastructure and services.
- State and federal laws govern the sharing of revenues generated from natural resource extraction on federal public lands with state and local governments. context
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Counties of origin
Receive direct monetary transfers of federal mineral royalties within thirty days of deposit for local appropriation.
Treasurer of state
Must hold custody of the newly established federal mineral royalty clearing fund outside of the state treasury.
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Which counties are eligible to receive federal mineral royalties under this bill?
What are counties permitted to spend the federal mineral royalty money on?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
2 actions- Nov 5, 2025SenateCommitteeReferred to Energy
- Oct 29, 2025SenateIntroducedIntroduced
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Separation of Mineral Royalties from Forest Products
The bill explicitly removes federal mineral royalties from being governed by traditional national forest timber revenue distribution formulas.
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Sources
www.legislature.ohio.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance60How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
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