Assembly Bill 926
Creating the Department of Environmental Quality and transferring some of the authority and duties of the Department of Natural Resources to the Department of Environmental Quality and to the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, granting rule-making authority, providing a penalty, and making appropriations
Topics: Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, Department of, Environmental protection, Natural Resources Board, Natural Resources, Department of: Administration
Stopped in committee
It never got a , so it never came up for a vote. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.
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Introduced, passed
Apr 5, 2010
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Senate vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Apr 29, 2010: “Fiscal estimate received”
It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
Under current law, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) administers programs relating to air quality, water quality, water supply, wastewater, recycling, solid and hazardous waste, mining, environmental cleanups, wetlands, shoreland zoning, navigable waters (including dams and piers), state parks and other recreational properties, forestry, the Lower Wisconsin State Riverway, wildlife (including hunting, fishing, and trapping), endangered resources, boats, snowmobiles, and all-terrain vehicles. DNR also administers the stewardship program, under which the state is authorized to bond for various conservation purposes. DNR is governed by a seven-member board and has a secretary who is nominated by the governor, and with the advice and consent of the senate appointed.
This bill creates a Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and transfers some of DNR's responsibilities to DEQ effective July 1, 2011. DEQ is governed by a secretary who is nominated by the governor, and with the advice and consent of the senate appointed. There is no board for DEQ. Under the bill, the Natural Resources Board appoints the secretary of natural resources. The bill also requires that at least one member of the Natural Resources Board have an agricultural background and that at least three members of the Natural Resources Board have held an annual hunting, trapping, or fishing license in at least seven of the ten years before their appointment, except that the number of years in which an individual must have held a license is reduced by the number of years that the individual served on active duty in the U.S. armed forces or national guard during that ten-year period.
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Under the bill, DEQ administers programs relating to air quality, water quality, water supply, wastewater, recycling, solid and hazardous waste, mining, environmental cleanups, wetlands, shoreland zoning, and navigable waters (including dams and piers). DNR continues to administer programs relating to state parks and other recreational properties, the Lower Wisconsin State Riverway, wildlife (including hunting, fishing, and trapping), endangered resources, boats, snowmobiles, and all-terrain vehicles.
This bill also transfers the responsibility to administer programs related to forestry from DNR to the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. DNR retains the responsibility of determining public access on land in state forests and on land subject to the managed forest land program.
Who's behind it
18 lawmakers are its . All 18 are Republicans.
3 more lawmakers .
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Authors (18)
- Garey Bies · Republican, Assembly
- Edward Brooks · Republican, Assembly
- Donald Friske · Republican, Assembly
- Michael Huebsch · Republican, Assembly
- Jim Ott · Republican, Assembly
- Samantha Kerkman · Republican, Assembly
- Dan Knodl · Republican, Assembly
- Daniel LeMahieu · Republican, Assembly
- Thomas Lothian · Republican, Assembly
- John Nygren · Republican, Assembly
- Kevin Petersen · Republican, Assembly
- Don Pridemore · Republican, Assembly
- Kitty Rhoades · Republican, Assembly
- Roger Roth · Republican, Senate
- Pat Strachota · Republican, Assembly
- Scott Suder · Republican, Assembly
- Karl Van Roy · Republican, Assembly
- Robin Vos · Republican, Assembly
Signed on in support (3)
- Alberta Darling · Republican, Senate
- Randy Hopper · Republican, Senate
- Dale Schultz · Republican, Senate
What it would cost
State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.
What happened
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Apr 29, 2010
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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Apr 28, 2010
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Apr 26, 2010
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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Apr 5, 2010
Sent to the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources.
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Apr 5, 2010
Introduced in the Assembly.
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- Apr 5, 2010 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Huebsch, Suder, Kerkman, Van Roy, Vos, Petersen, Strachota, Nygren, Knodl, Bies, Roth, Rhoades, Lothian, Brooks, LeMahieu, Pridemore, Friske and J. Ott;Cosponsored by Senators Hopper, Darling and Schultz
- Apr 5, 2010 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to committee on Natural Resources
- Apr 26, 2010 · Assembly
Fiscal estimate received
- Apr 28, 2010 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
- Apr 29, 2010 · Assembly
Fiscal estimate received
Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary
From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate