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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 799

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Relating to: grants for planting trees to address urban heat islands, eligible recipients for urban forestry grants, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Forestry Indians and tribal issues Municipality Natural resources department of — Environmental protection

  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, the Department of Natural Resources administers an urban

forestry grants program to provide grants to municipalities and nonprofit

organizations to undertake various tree projects in urban areas.

This bill requires DNR, under the urban forestry grants program, to also award

grants of up to $100,000 to municipalities, Indian tribes, and nonprofit organizations

to plant trees to reduce the effects of urban heat islands. The bill defines an “urban

heat island” as an urban or metropolitan area that is significantly warmer than the

surrounding natural land cover. The bill increases funding for the urban forestry

grant program by $500,000 in the 2022-23 fiscal year from the conservation fund to

provide these new grants and allows DNR to promulgate emergency rules to

administer the grant program. The bill also clarifies that Indian tribes are also

eligible for the other types of grants under the existing program.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , B. Meyers (D) , Baldeh (D) , Brostoff (D) , Cabrera (D) , Conley (D) , Considine (D) , Drake (D) , Emerson (D) , Hebl (D) , Hong (D) , Milroy (D) , Neubauer (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , S. Rodriguez (D) , Shelton (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Vining (D)

8 cosponsors

Agard (D) , Carpenter (D) , Erpenbach (D) , Johnson (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Larson (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D)

Full history

  1. Jan 4, 2022 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Drake, Subeck, Stubbs, Anderson, Baldeh, Brostoff, Cabrera, Conley, Considine, Emerson, Hebl, Hong, B. Meyers, Milroy, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Pope, S. Rodriguez, Shelton, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Spreitzer and Vining; cosponsored by Senators L. Taylor, Johnson, Roys, Erpenbach, Agard, Smith, Larson and Carpenter

  2. Jan 4, 2022 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Forestry, Parks and Outdoor Recreation

  3. Jan 13, 2022 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1