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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 149

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Relating to: legislative oversight of federal COVID-19 funds.

Federal aid Governor Legislature Legislature — Finance joint committee on

  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, with exceptions, the governor is authorized to receive and

direct the expenditure of all federal funds received by the state. This bill increases

the legislature's role in approving the expenditure of federal funds that are received

by the state between the effective date of this bill and June 30, 2022, that relate to

COVID-19 activities. Under the bill, as soon as practical after the receipt of any

federal funds related to COVID-19 that are made available to the state, the governor

must submit to the Joint Committee on Finance for a 14-day passive review a plan

or plans for the expenditure of the funds.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Allen (R) , Armstrong (R) , August (R) , Born (R) , Brooks (R) , Cabral-Guevara (R) , Dallman (R) , Dittrich (R) , Duchow (R) , Edming (R) , Gundrum (R) , J. Rodriguez (R) , James (R) , Katsma (R) , Kerkman (R) , Kitchens (R) , Krug (R) , Kurtz (R) , Loudenbeck (R) , Macco (R) , Moses (R) , Murphy (R) , Neylon (R) , Petersen (R) , Petryk (R) , Plumer (R) , Ramthun (R) , Rozar (R) , Skowronski (R) , Snyder (R) , Sortwell (R) , Spiros (R) , Steffen (R) , Steineke (R) , Summerfield (R) , Swearingen (R) , Tranel (R) , Tusler (R) , Vorpagel (R) , Vos (R) , Wittke (R) , Zimmerman (R)

11 cosponsors

Ballweg (R) , Bernier (R) , Feyen (R) , Jacque (R) , Kapenga (R) , LeMahieu (R) , Marklein (R) , Stroebel (R) , Testin (R) , Wanggaard (R) , Wichgers (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Constitution and Ethics, Ayes 6, Noes 3

Passed 6–3 Mar 17, 2021 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. Mar 8, 2021 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Vos, Steineke, August, Petersen, Vorpagel, Duchow, James, Kerkman, Born, Loudenbeck, Katsma, Zimmerman, J. Rodriguez, Kurtz, Skowronski, Kitchens, Ramthun, Edming, Spiros, Petryk, Neylon, Sortwell, Plumer, Tusler, Murphy, Moses, Summerfield, Snyder, Macco, Steffen, Rozar, Krug, Dittrich, Gundrum, Dallman, Tranel, Brooks, Allen, Wittke, Swearingen, Armstrong and Cabral-Guevara; cosponsored by Senators LeMahieu, Kapenga, Feyen, Testin, Wanggaard, Marklein, Bernier, Stroebel, Jacque and Ballweg

  2. Mar 8, 2021 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Constitution and Ethics

  3. Mar 10, 2021 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Mar 10, 2021 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  5. Mar 12, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Wichgers added as a coauthor

  6. Mar 17, 2021 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Constitution and Ethics, Ayes 6, Noes 3

  7. Mar 17, 2021 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  8. Mar 17, 2021 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 3-23-2021 by Committee on Rules

  9. Mar 23, 2021 · Assembly

    Laid on the table

  10. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1