2021 House Bill 4395

Appropriations: Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy

Introduced in the House

March 2, 2021

Introduced by Rep. Sue Allor (R-106)

To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential Department of Natural Resources budget for the 2021-2022 fiscal year. This bill contains nominal appropriations only, but may be amended at a later date to include real ones.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 6, 2021

Reported without amendment

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

May 11, 2021

Amendment offered by Rep. Rachel Hood (D-76)

To appropriate the department's full year budget, not just three months worth.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. John Cherry (D-49)

To expand and spend more on a Michigan conservation corps program.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Passed in the House 58 to 49 (details)

The House version of the Department of Natural Resources for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2021. This would appropriate just three months worth of spending, however, or $113.8 million, of which $22.8 million is federal money.

Received in the Senate

May 12, 2021

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

May 19, 2021

Passed in the Senate 20 to 16 (details)

To send the bill back to the House "stripped" of all actual appropriations except $100 “placeholders.” This is part of a process for reconciling the House and Senate-passed department budgets for the next fiscal year.

Received in the House

May 19, 2021

May 26, 2021

Failed in the House 3 to 106 (details)

To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill. The failed vote is a procedural device used for launching negotiations over the differences between the House and Senate budgets, and eventually for negotiating a final budget between a Republican-controlled legislature and a Democratic governor.