2021 Senate Bill 91

Appropriations: 2021-22 Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy budget

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 2, 2021

Introduced by Sen. Jon Bumstead (R-34)

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

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 spend $40 million on grants to local goverments to make plans that "prepare for and strengthen their resiliency in relation to severe weather events and the effects of changing climate conditions" and install "infrastructure that directly addresses the impacts and vulnerabilities presented by those adverse conditions".

The amendment failed 16 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Rosemary Bayer (D-12)

To add $20 million for "contaminated site cleanups".

The amendment failed 16 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Rosemary Bayer (D-12)

To use $290 million from an environmental clean up bond proceeds to make local water infrastructure grants.

The amendment failed 16 to 20 (details)

Passed in the Senate 20 to 16 (details)

The Senate version of the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2021. This would appropriate $665.2 million, of which $171.8 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