2021 Senate Bill 90

Appropriations: 2021-22 Department of Natural Resources budget

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 2, 2021

Introduced by Sen. Jon Bumstead (R-34)

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 11, 2021

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

May 12, 2021

Amendment offered by Sen. Sean McCann (D-20)

To very slightly increase spending and staff in the "forest recreation and trails" line item.

The amendment failed 16 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Ed McBroom (R-38)

To require the state to pay the legal fees of the Line 5 gas pipeline company after Gov. Whitmer revoked the 1953 easement that authorizes its pipeline to cross Mackinac Straits bottomlands, if the company prevails in a lawsuit against the taking.

The amendment passed 20 to 16 (details)

Passed in the Senate 20 to 16 (details)

The Senate version of the Department of Natural Resources for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2021. This would appropriate $454 million, of which $91.2 million is federal money.

Received in the House

May 13, 2021

May 19, 2021

Substitute offered by Rep. Thomas Albert (R-86)

The substitute passed by voice vote

May 20, 2021

Passed in the House 108 to 0 (details)

To send back to the Senate a substitute version of the bill that is "stripped" of all actual appropriations, and instead authorizes just $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 Senate

May 25, 2021

May 26, 2021

Failed in the Senate 0 to 36 (details)

June 10, 2021

Received