Introduced
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To provide a template or "place holder" the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy 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
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Amendment offered
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To appropriate the department's full year budget, not just three months worth, and also authorize three additional non-unionized "unclassified" employees hired by the department director. These tend to be more "political" type positions involved in communications, legislative relations and matters that are not amenable to non-political "civil service" positions.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To authorize more spending on department regulatory activities and grants.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Passed in the House 56 to 51 (details)
The House version of the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2021. This would appropriate just three months worth of spending, however, or $155.6 million, of which $42.9 million is federal money.
Referred to the Committee of the Whole
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.
Failed in the House 0 to 109 (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.
