Introduced
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To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2018-2019 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
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Amendment offered
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To spend more on water quality grants, recycling programs, cleanup programs, and more. Also, to require the department to explore the possibility of increasing restrictions on groundwater withdrawals.
The amendment failed 14 to 22 (details)
Amendment offered
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To add $150,000 for a "cooperative lake monitoring" program.
The amendment failed 15 to 21 (details)
Passed in the Senate 24 to 12 (details)
The Senate version of the Department of Environmental Quality budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2018. This would appropriate $420.8 million in gross spending. Of this, $160.2 million is federal money, and the rest is from state and local taxes and fees.
Motion to reconsider
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The vote by which the bill was passed.
The motion passed by voice vote
Received
Passed in the Senate 27 to 9 (details)
The Senate version of the Department of Environmental Quality budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2018. This would appropriate $420.8 million in gross spending. Of this, $160.2 million is federal money, and the rest is from state and local taxes and fees.
Substitute offered
To replace the previous version of the bill with one that contains no appropriations; see House-passed bill for an explanation.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 106 to 2 (details)
To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations, leaving it 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 budgets. The House has actually passed its version of the full budget in two "omnibus" bills, House Bills 5578 and 5579.
Failed in the Senate 0 to 37 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
