Introduced
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To require the Department of Environmental Quality to issue or deny the various environmental permits required under state law within six months of a person filing an application. The department would have to notify an applicant within 10 days if a permit application requires additional information or is not “administratively complete.” If the deadline is not met, the application fee would be waived, and the applicant would be granted a 15-percent discount on fees required in the following year. The bill is part of a permit streamlining package comprised of House Bills 5876 to 5904.
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Resource Management
Reported without amendment
Without amendment and with the recommendation that the bill pass.
Substitute offered
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To replace the previous version of the bill with one that decreases the period allowed for processing most licenses by various amounts, increases the period allowed for determining that an application is “administratively complete,” and streamlines the annual departmental reports proposed by the bill.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 100 to 0 (details)
To require the Department of Environmental Quality to issue or deny the various environmental permits required under state law within six months of a person filing an application, or less for some permits. The department would have to notify an applicant within 30 days if a permit application requires additional information or is not “administratively complete.” If the deadline is not met, the applicant would be granted a 15-percent discount on the application fee or the fees required in the following permit period.
Referred to the Committee on Economic Development, Small Business, and Regulatory Reform
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the bill pass.
Amendment offered
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To authorize the Department of Environmental Quality to not process an improperly delayed permit application based on the date on which it was submitted, if it determines this to be "in the public interest".
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 35 to 0 (details)
To require the Department of Environmental Quality to issue or deny the various environmental permits required under state law within six months of a person filing an application, or less for some permits. The department would have to notify an applicant within 30 days if a permit application requires additional information or is not “administratively complete.” If the deadline is not met, the applicant would be granted a 15-percent discount on the application fee or the fees required in the following permit period.
Motion to reconsider
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To reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed, so as to clean up a "conflict" between the language of the proposed law and another new statute.
The motion passed by voice vote
Substitute offered
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To replace the previous version of the bill with a "conflict substitute," made necessary because the law being amended has been changed by another bill, requiring that certain references in this bill be updated. These changes not affect the substance of the bill as previously described.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 37 to 0 (details)
To require the Department of Environmental Quality to issue or deny the various environmental permits required under state law within six months of a person filing an application, or less for some permits.
Amendment offered
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To revise the requirement that hunters wear "hunter's orange" in the field so as to exempt those hunting for migratory birds from the requirement, except for woodcock hunters. Reportedly some migratory birds, including mourning doves, can see hunter's orange.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 103 to 0 (details)
To add a provision to the previously passed bill that would revise the requirement that hunters wear "hunter's orange" in the field so as to exempt those hunting for migratory birds from the requirement, except for woodcock hunters.
Passed in the Senate 34 to 0 (details)
