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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 331

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Relating to: grants to map, control, eradicate, monitor, and minimize the spread of wild parsnip; funding for the Bureau of Natural Heritage Conservation; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation. (FE)

Indians and tribal issues Municipality — Finance Municipality — Officers Natural resources department of — Environmental protection Weeds

  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

This bill requires the Department of Natural Resources, under its statewide

program to control invasive species, to award up to $100,000 in each fiscal year in

the 2023-25 fiscal biennium in grants to local governments or American Indian

tribes or bands that have declared wild parsnip to be a noxious weed for projects on

public or private land to map, control, eradicate, monitor, and minimize the spread

of wild parsnip. The bill allows a grant recipient to collaborate with a regional

conservation organization on a project funded by the grant. Under the bill, an

individual grant may not exceed $10,000 and a grantee may not be awarded more

than one grant per grant cycle.

The bill appropriates $50,000 in each fiscal year in the 2023-25 fiscal biennium

to the Bureau of Natural Heritage Conservation.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Allen (R) , Baldeh (D) , Bare (D) , Billings (D) , C. Anderson (D) , Cabrera (D) , Clancy (D) , Conley (D) , Considine (D) , Dittrich (R) , Doyle (D) , Emerson (D) , Green (R) , Joers (D) , Kitchens (R) , Krug (R) , Madison (D) , Mursau (R) , Ohnstad (D) , Palmeri (D) , Rozar (R) , Shankland (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Spiros (R) , Subeck (D)

11 cosponsors

Ballweg (R) , Behnke (R) , Carpenter (D) , Cowles (R) , Jacobson (D) , Larson (D) , Pfaff (D) , Quinn (R) , Ratcliff (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Testin (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Environment, Ayes 7, Noes 1

Passed 7–1 Oct 19, 2023 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. Jun 22, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Krug, Shankland, Dittrich, Allen, C. Anderson, Baldeh, Bare, Billings, Cabrera, Clancy, Conley, Considine, Doyle, Emerson, Green, Joers, Kitchens, Madison, Mursau, Ohnstad, Palmeri, Rozar, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Spiros and Subeck; cosponsored by Senators Testin, Cowles, Carpenter, Larson, Pfaff, Quinn and Spreitzer

  2. Jun 22, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Environment

  3. Jun 27, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Ratcliff added as a coauthor

  4. Jul 5, 2023 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Aug 15, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Jacobson added as a coauthor

  6. Sep 5, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Behnke added as a coauthor

  7. Sep 28, 2023 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  8. Oct 5, 2023 · Assembly

    Senator Ballweg added as a cosponsor

  9. Oct 5, 2023 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  10. Oct 19, 2023 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  11. Oct 19, 2023 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Environment, Ayes 7, Noes 1

  12. Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1