2014 Senate Bill 766

Appropriations: Department of Environmental Quality

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 11, 2014

Introduced by Sen. Michael Green (R-31)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2014-2015 Department Of Environmental Quality budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 29, 2014

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

April 30, 2014

Substitute offered

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 38 to 0 (details)

The Senate version of the Department of Environmental Quality budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2015. This would appropriate $502.5 million in gross spending, compared to $517.1 million, which was the amount appropriated the previous year. Of this, $150.3 million is federal money, and the rest is from state and local taxes and fees (including a 7/8 cent per gallon fuel tax).

Received in the House

April 30, 2014

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 14, 2014

Substitute offered by Rep. Joseph Haveman (R-90)

To adopt a version of the budget that contains no appropriations, but is instead intended to launch negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 109 to 0 (details)

To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations. This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

Received in the Senate

May 20, 2014

Failed in the Senate 0 to 38 (details)

June 12, 2014

Received

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations