Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

AB 926

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Relating to: shoreline maintenance in outlying waters.

Lakes Natural resources, department of — Environmental protection Shoreland zoning Waterways and water power

Introduced, completed
Passes Assembly, completed
Passes Senate, completed
Governor signs, completed
Law, completed

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill exempts from Department of Natural Resources permitting

requirements certain shoreline maintenance activities in Lake Superior, Lake

Michigan, Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay, Sawyer's Harbor, and the Fox River from its

mouth up to the dam at De Pere (outlying waters).

Under current law, a person must obtain one or more permits from DNR in

order to conduct certain activities in or near navigable waterways, including placing

structures or deposits in navigable waters, manually removing aquatic plants from

navigable waters, and removing material from the bed of a navigable water. The bed

of a navigable water includes the area between the water's edge and the ordinary

high-water mark (shoreline area). This bill exempts from these permit

requirements certain shoreline maintenance activities that are conducted in the

shoreline area of outlying waters, including leveling sand, grooming soil, removing

debris, and mowing vegetation.

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Environment and Forestry, Ayes 8, Noes 4

Passed 8–4 Feb 20, 2018 official source full page

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

Assembly: PASSAGE

Passed 59–34 Feb 22, 2018 official source full page

Aye · 59

Nay · 34

Not voting · 5

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Mar 15, 2018 official source full page