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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

SB 466

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Relating to: prohibiting the funding and use of the Sheboygan Kohler-Andrae air quality monitor. (FE)

Air pollution Natural resources, department of — Environmental protection Sheboygan county State park United states — Environmental protection agency

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Senate, completed
  3. Passes Assembly, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Current federal regulation requires each state to submit to the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency an annual monitoring network plan documenting

the establishment and maintenance of an air quality surveillance system consisting

of individual monitoring stations meeting specified criteria. States are required to

submit ambient air quality data collected by the monitoring network to the U.S. EPA

quarterly.

This bill prohibits the Department of Natural Resources from including the air

monitoring site located at Kohler-Andrae State Park in Sheboygan County in the

annual monitoring network plan, beginning with the plan submitted in 2018. Under

the bill, upon U.S. EPA approval of the state's monitoring network plan, DNR is

required to cease funding the operation and maintenance of the Kohler-Andrae air

monitoring site and to cease collecting data from the site.

The bill also requires DNR to request a waiver of the relevant provisions of the

federal Clean Air Act relating to the state implementation plan that may be

implicated by discontinuing the use of the air monitoring site located at

Kohler-Andrae State Park in Sheboygan County. Current federal regulation

requires each state to submit to the U.S. EPA a plan that provides for the

implementation, maintenance, and enforcement of primary ambient air quality

standards.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: LeMahieu (R) , Stroebel (R) , Wanggaard (R)

15 cosponsors

Allen (R) , Born (R) , Craig (R) , Gannon (R) , Horlacher (R) , Jacque (R) , Jarchow (R) , Katsma (R) , Knodl (R) , Kremer (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Murphy (R) , R. Brooks (R) , Skowronski (R) , Vorpagel (R)

Votes

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Technology and Consumer Protection, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Jan 11, 2018 official source full page

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

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Amendment 2 recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Technology and Consumer Protection, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Jan 11, 2018 official source full page

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

Senate: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Technology and Consumer Protection, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Jan 11, 2018 official source full page

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

Senate: PASSAGE

Passed 18–14 Feb 20, 2018 official source full page

Assembly: CONCURRENCE

Passed 58–35 Feb 22, 2018 official source full page

Aye · 58

Not voting · 5

Full history

  1. Oct 18, 2017 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators LeMahieu, Stroebel and Wanggaard; cosponsored by Representatives Kremer, Katsma, Vorpagel, Allen, Born, R. Brooks, Gannon, Horlacher, Jacque, Jarchow, Knodl, Kuglitsch, Murphy and Skowronski

  2. Oct 18, 2017 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations, Technology and Consumer Protection

  3. Dec 7, 2017 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Dec 13, 2017 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator LeMahieu

  5. Dec 14, 2017 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  6. Dec 14, 2017 · Senate

    Senator Craig added as a coauthor

  7. Jan 5, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 2 offered by Senator LeMahieu

  8. Jan 9, 2018 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  9. Jan 11, 2018 · Senate

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Technology and Consumer Protection, Ayes 3, Noes 2

  10. Jan 11, 2018 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  11. Jan 11, 2018 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Technology and Consumer Protection, Ayes 3, Noes 2

  12. Jan 11, 2018 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Amendment 2 recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Technology and Consumer Protection, Ayes 3, Noes 2

  13. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-20-2018 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  14. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Read a second time

  15. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 adopted

  16. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 2 adopted

  17. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  18. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  19. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 18, Noes 14

  20. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  21. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  22. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  23. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 1:45 PM on 2-22-2018 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 27

  24. Feb 22, 2018 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  25. Feb 22, 2018 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  26. Feb 22, 2018 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  27. Feb 22, 2018 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 58, Noes 35

  28. Feb 22, 2018 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  29. Feb 23, 2018 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  30. Mar 2, 2018 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  31. Mar 2, 2018 · Senate

    LRB correction

  32. Mar 26, 2018 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 3-26-2018

  33. Mar 28, 2018 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 3-28-2018. 2017 Wisconsin Act 159

  34. Mar 28, 2018 · Senate

    Published 3-29-2018