To create a state environmental rules review committee comprised of certain officials and representatives of specified interests including business, government and environmentalist groups, with the duty to oversee and make judgments on whether plans by the Department of Environmental Quality to promulgate and impose new rules meet certain specified criteria including reasonableness, and to propose revisions if they do not. The committee would be empowered to stop the DEQ from imposing a rule that did not meet the criteria.   Official Text and Analysis.

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

To remove the proposed committee's power to halt new rules, and make revisions to the oversight process that would remain.

To require voting members on the proposed oversight committee to be a resident of the state.

With the recommendation that the bill be referred to the Committee on Michigan Competitiveness.

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

To replace the previous version of the bill with one that revises details related to committee appointments but does not change the substance as previously described.

To prohibit membership on the proposed panel by an individual who has been a lobbyist at any time during the past five years.

To require members of the proposed appeals panel to be a resident of the state.

To tie-bar the bill to House Bills 4200 to 4201, and 4214 meaning this bill cannot become law unless those ones do also. Those bills expand the powers of state environmental regulators. Those bills would create environmental oversight committees empowered to hold public hearings and more on environmental permits and enforcement actions.

To prohibit membership on the proposed panel by an individual who has been employed by a firm found to have violated an environmental regulation in the past five years.

To create a state environmental rules review committee comprised of certain officials and representatives of specified interests including business, government and environmentalist groups, with the duty to oversee and make judgments on whether plans by the Department of Environmental Quality to promulgate and impose new rules meet certain specified criteria including reasonableness, and to propose revisions if they do not. Ultimately, the decision to promulgate a new rule would belong to the governor regardless of the committee's judgment.

To concur with the House-passed version of the bill, under which the governor has the final say on whether new environmental rules and regulations are imposed.