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Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

AB 778

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Relating to: prohibiting certain mining and drilling activities that cause the destruction or filling in of a lake bed, reservoir, or flowage or that cause the withdrawal of water from a reservoir or flowage.

Lakes Land use planning and control Mine and mining Minority groups Natural resources, department of — Environmental protection Petroleum Waterways and water power

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law prohibits a person engaged in nonferrous metallic mining from

destroying or filling in a lake bed. Current law also prohibits a person engaged in

ferrous metallic mining from destroying or filling in a lake bed except as authorized

by the Department of Natural Resources under the authority of certain other

specified statutes. This bill eliminates this exception. The bill expands the

prohibitions in current law so that a person engaged in nonferrous metallic mining

or ferrous metallic mining is also prohibited from destroying or filling in a reservoir

or flowage or from withdrawing water from a reservoir or flowage.

This bill also prohibits a person from conducting drilling operations for the

exploration for or production of oil or gas if the drilling requires the withdrawal of

water from a reservoir or flowage.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Barnes (D) , Berceau (D) , Bernard Schaber (D) , Bewley (D) , Billings (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Clark (D) , Danou (D) , Doyle (D) , Genrich (D) , Goyke (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Hintz (D) , Hulsey (D) , Jorgensen (D) , Kahl (D) , Kessler (D) , Kolste (D) , Mason (D) , Milroy (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pasch (D) , Pope (D) , Richards (D) , Ringhand (D) , Shankland (D) , Smith (D) , Wachs (D) , Wright (D) , Young (D) , Zamarripa (D)

5 cosponsors

Carpenter (D) , Lassa (D) , Miller (D) , Risser (D) , Vinehout (D)

Votes

Suspending the rules (to take a vote immediately) needs a two-thirds majority — a higher bar than passing the bill, which needs a simple majority. That's why a suspension motion can show more Ayes than the passage vote that follows it. Glossary

Assembly: Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Jobs, Economy and Mining and take up, Ayes 37, Noes 56

Failed 37–56 Feb 20, 2014 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Feb 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Wachs, Smith, Clark, Barnes, Berceau, Bernard Schaber, Bewley, Billings, Danou, Doyle, Genrich, Goyke, Hesselbein, Hintz, Hulsey, Jorgensen, Kahl, Kessler, Kolste, Mason, Milroy, Ohnstad, Pasch, Pope, Richards, Ringhand, Shankland, C. Taylor, Wright, Young and Zamarripa; cosponsored by Senators Miller, Vinehout, Carpenter, Lassa and Risser

  2. Feb 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Jobs, Economy and Mining

  3. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Jobs, Economy and Mining and take up, Ayes 37, Noes 56

  4. Apr 8, 2014 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1