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Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

AB 69

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Relating to: permit fees for concentrated animal feeding operations. (FE)

Livestock and meat Natural resources department of — Environmental protection Water — Pollution

  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

Under current law, a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) that holds

a water pollutant discharge elimination system (WPDES) permit from the

Department of Natural Resources must pay an annual permit fee of $345. Of that

amount, $95 is deposited into an appropriation account for DNR's environmental

quality functions and its management of state water resources, with the remainder

deposited into the general fund.

Under this bill, the full amount of the $345 annual WPDES permit fee for a

CAFO is deposited into the DNR appropriation account for environmental quality

functions and management of state water resources.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Edming (R) , Kitchens (R) , Krug (R) , Kurtz (R) , Mursau (R) , Nygren (R) , Ramthun (R) , Rohrkaste (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Tusler (R)

8 cosponsors

Cowles (R) , Nass (R) , Olsen (R) , Plumer (R) , Stroebel (R) , Testin (R) , VanderMeer (R) , Wanggaard (R)

Full history

  1. Mar 7, 2019 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Krug, Kurtz, Ramthun, Thiesfeldt, Nygren, Kitchens, Tusler, Mursau, Rohrkaste and Edming; cosponsored by Senators Cowles, Testin, Olsen, Stroebel, Nass and Wanggaard

  2. Mar 7, 2019 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture

  3. Mar 11, 2019 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Apr 25, 2019 · Assembly

    Representative VanderMeer added as a coauthor

  5. May 28, 2019 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. May 29, 2019 · Assembly

    Representative Plumer added as a coauthor

  7. Apr 1, 2020 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1