Washington 14th District Representative Chris Corry’s bill to provide compensation to ranchers and farmers whose land leases are terminated early by the Washington Department of Natural Resources continues to make it way through the Legislature.  Corry says the bill it will be moved on Tuesday out of the Appropriations Committee onto the House floor, noting a year’s worth of work has brought a number of different groups to get behind it, and he expects it will get through both chambers of the Legislature and get to the Governor for a signature.  The bill provides for a compensation plan that would give the farmer or rancher net returns for the remaining years of a DNR lease that is being terminated.  State law allows DNR to use a non-default termination to replace a lessee with a higher-revenue tenant.  The terminations have been occurring as the state receives offers from companies interested in locating solar farms DNR lands.