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• Introduced by Sen. Jim Barcia (D) on March 2, 2005, the executive recommendation for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2005-2006 Department of Environmental Quality budget. This appropriates $373.3 million in unadjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars), compared to $336.0 million, which was the FY 2004-2005 amount enrolled in 2004. Of this, $30.5 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2004-2005 amount of $31.6 million. Much more information on Michigan’s budget is available at Hot Topics: Michigan’s Budget Challenge at www.mackinac.org/4964.
  • Referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee on March 2, 2005.
    • Reported in the Senate on June 14, 2005, with the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
  • Substitute offered in the Senate on June 14, 2005, to replace the executive proposal for this budget with one that expresses policy differences between the Republican-majority in the Senate and Governor Jennifer Granholm on certain spending items and funding sources. For much more detail see analysis from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency”>analysis from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Liz Brater (D) on June 14, 2005, to strip out a requirement that the department derive its environmental cleanup criteria from peer-reviewed risk assessment studies. The amendment failed in the Senate by voice vote on June 14, 2005.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Liz Brater (D) on June 14, 2005, to add $5 million for state recycling subsidies. The amendment failed in the Senate (15 to 22) on June 14, 2005. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Ray Basham (D) on June 14, 2005, to require the department to report annually to the city of Romulus on the various impacts of the proposed deep well injection facility. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on June 14, 2005.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Liz Brater (D) on June 14, 2005, to strip out a prohibition on the department developing or enforcing new regulations on groundwater withdrawals. Controversial legislation has been introduced to authorize such regulation, but has not been passed by the House or Senate. The amendment failed in the Senate (15 to 22) on June 14, 2005. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Michelle McManus (R) on June 14, 2005, to add a prohibition on the department requiring a person to obtain a pollutant discharge elimination system permit if the does not discharge pollutants. This relates to Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) farms, which may be required by the department to apply for such permits, even if they have no discharges. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on June 14, 2005.
• Passed in the Senate (36 to 1) on June 14, 2005, the Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2005-2006 Department of Environmental Quality budget. This appropriates $373.9 million in unadjusted gross spending, compared to $336.0 million, which was the FY 2004-2005 amount enrolled in 2004. Of this, $30.8 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2004-2005 amount of $31.6 million. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Received in the House on June 16, 2005.
  • Referred to the House Appropriations Committee on June 16, 2005.
    • Reported in the House on June 28, 2005, with the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
  • Substitute offered in the House on June 28, 2005, to replace the Senate-passed version of this budget with one that “strips” all actual appropriations. See House-passed version for explanation. The substitute passed in the House by voice vote on June 28, 2005.
• Passed in the House (101 to 0) on June 28, 2005, to send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations, leaving it in its original form as a "template" or "placeholder." This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budget. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Received in the Senate on June 29, 2005.
• Failed in the Senate (0 to 35) on June 30, 2005, to concur with a House-passed version of the bill. The vote sends the bill to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differences. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Received in the Senate on September 13, 2005.
  • Referred by Sen. Beverly Hammerstrom (R) on October 11, 2005.
• Received in the House on September 13, 2005.