Introduced
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To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2013-2014 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.
Substitute offered
To adopt a version of this budget that expresses the fiscal and policy preferences of the Republican-majority in the House on various spending items and programs.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the DEQ to report to produce a report on the effectiveness of the groundwater withdrawal "assessment tool" mandated by a <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-860>2008 law</a> that imposed a comprehensive regulatory regime on industrial and large commercial groundwater withdrawals.
The amendment failed 12 to 24 (details)
Passed in the Senate 29 to 7 (details)
The Senate version of the Department of Environmental Quality budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2013. This would appropriate $510.6 million in gross spending, compared to $431.7 million, which was the amount appropriated the previous year. Of this, $150.9 million is federal money, and the rest is from state and local taxes and fees (including a 7/8 cent per gallon fuel tax). The large increase over the previous year's budget is from a proposal to spend $97 million in borrowed money on grants and loans to municipalities for sewer upgrades and another $3 million for "wetland mitigation banks".
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Substitute offered
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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 60 to 48 (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.
Failed in the Senate 0 to 38 (details)
To concur with a House-passed version of the bill. The vote sends the bill to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differences.
Received
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
