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Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

SB 896

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Relating to: funding for the municipal flood control program and making an appropriation. (FE)

Floodplain management Municipality — Finance Natural resources department of — Environmental protection

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

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill increases the amount appropriated to the Department of Natural

Resources for municipal flood control by $10,000,000. Under current law, DNR

administers the municipal flood control program to provide financial assistance to

local governmental units for facilities and structures for the collection and

transmission of storm water and groundwater, including the purchase of perpetual

flowage and conservation easement rights on land within floodways, and for the

floodproofing of public and private structures that remain in the 100-year

floodplain. The bill requires DNR to allocate at least 20 percent of the program's

funding for projects that involve any of the following:

1. Floodproofing and elevation of structures.

2. Riparian restoration projects.

3. Acquisition of land and easements.

4. Construction of structures for flood control and riparian restoration.

5. Preparation of flood insurance studies and other flood mapping projects.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Bewley (D) , Carpenter (D) , Erpenbach (D) , Hansen (D) , Larson (D) , Miller (D) , Smith (D)

16 cosponsors

B. Meyers (D) , Billings (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Considine (D) , Doyle (D) , Emerson (D) , Hebl (D) , Milroy (D) , Neubauer (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Sargent (D) , Shankland (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Subeck (D) , Zamarripa (D)

Full history

  1. Mar 19, 2020 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Smith, Bewley, Carpenter, Miller, Erpenbach, Hansen and Larson; cosponsored by Representatives B. Meyers, Spreitzer, C. Taylor, Sinicki, Hebl, Sargent, Milroy, Zamarripa, Considine, Ohnstad, Billings, Shankland, Emerson, Neubauer, Doyle and Subeck

  2. Mar 19, 2020 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources and Energy

  3. Apr 1, 2020 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  4. Apr 22, 2020 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received