Appropriates $54,525,400 to the Department of Lands for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 291.1; and exempts certain appropriation object transfer limitations.

This is the fiscal year 2017 appropriation to the Department of Lands. It appropriates $5,344,900 from the General Fund, $42,562,900 from dedicated funds, and $6,617,600 in federal funds for a total of $54,525,400. It limits the number of full-time equivalent positions to 291.1. The bill includes funding for the increased costs for health insurance, funding for increases in leased office space at Capitol Park Plaza, provides funding for replacement items, and accounts for an increase in statewide cost allocation. This bill includes an ongoing 3% merit-based increase in employee compensation for permanent employees to be distributed at the discretion of agency heads and accounts for the 27th payroll. The budget also includes an annualization of $540,800 to account for the remaining nine months of costs for the fire preparedness supplemental previously approved. The appropriation includes approval of seventeen line items as follow: $960,000 for the second phase of the Lands and Waterways Information System; $113,800 for a new eastern Idaho fire services coordinator; the addition of 0.66 full-time equivalent positons to make two part-time positions full-time; $112,400 for seasonal fire fighting support; $171,000 and one position for oil and gas and mineral resource protection; $223,500 for a remote sensing analyst and seasonal personnel; $140,000 for startup costs for two additional rangeland fire protection associations; $79,200foranITsystemsanalyst; $63,000forgeospatialserversoftware; $195,000tocontinuethe Governor's sage-grouse conservation initiative; $150,100 for additional equipment for the Forest Resource Management, Lands and Waterways, and Forest and Range Fire Protection programs; $562,000 and 2.33 positions to use the Good Neighbor Authority Agreement; $1,350,000 to match a $1,665,300 Permanent Building Fund appropriation to expand the Coeur d'Alene staff office; $60,000 to match a $54,500 Permanent Building Fund appropriation to remodel the existing Coeur d