2022 House Bill 5782

Appropriations: Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy

Introduced in the House

Feb. 23, 2022

Introduced by Rep. Annette Glenn (R-98)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 28, 2022

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-3) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

May 5, 2022

Amendment offered by Rep. Annette Glenn (R-98)

To add funding for an "inland aquatic invasive plant species and eradication program".

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Annette Glenn (R-98)

To require the department to notify the legislators who represent a district when an environmental cleanup has been completed.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Annette Glenn (R-98)

To establish that "rules and regulations established by the department shall not be more stringent than comparable rules and regulations established at the federal level".

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Rachel Hood (D-76)

To authorize spending $100 million to subsidize payments by households with delinquent water and sewer bills, and adding $5 million for certain environmental cleanups.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-3)

To add $1 million for to increase the number of air quality regulatory monitoring stations and add a monitoring drone, and $5 million for more air quality monitoring.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Joe Tate (D-2)

To add another $25 million for contaminated site cleanups.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Jeff Yaroch (R-33)

To add $500,000 for disposal of firefighting foam containing PFAS.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 54 to 49 (details)

The House version of the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2022. This would appropriate $964.22 million, of which $526.5 million is federal money.

Received in the Senate

May 10, 2022

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

May 11, 2022

Passed in the Senate 21 to 12 (details)

To send the bill back to the House stripped of all actual appropriations except for $100 “placeholders," as part of a process to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

Received in the House

May 11, 2022

May 19, 2022

Failed in the House 0 to 106 (details)