Bills by subject

Lakes

30 bills and resolutions. 6 became law and 12 never got a public hearing. They span 3 sessions, from the 2009–10 session to the 2025–26 session.

This is the Legislature's own subject heading, not our category, so a bill is here only if the Legislature filed it under this term. Each count comes from the bill's official history.

Latest activity

The 5 bills on this subject with the newest recorded action.

SB 45 State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Became law. Last action May 13, 2026
AB 50 State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted. Last action Mar 23, 2026
AB 209 Creating a hazard mitigation revolving loan program, creating a Great Lakes erosion control revolving loan program, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted. Last action Mar 23, 2026
AJR 88 Recognizing November 10, 2025, as the 50th anniversary of the tragic loss of the crew of SS Edmund Fitzgerald.
Stopped in committee. Last action Mar 23, 2026
SB 207 Creating a hazard mitigation revolving loan program, creating a Great Lakes erosion control revolving loan program, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted. Last action Mar 23, 2026

Every bill on this subject

2025–26 session: 6

Mar 23, 2026
AB 50: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 209: Creating a hazard mitigation revolving loan program, creating a Great Lakes erosion control revolving loan program, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AJR 88: Recognizing November 10, 2025, as the 50th anniversary of the tragic loss of the crew of SS Edmund Fitzgerald.
Stopped in committee.
May 13, 2026
SB 45: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 207: Creating a hazard mitigation revolving loan program, creating a Great Lakes erosion control revolving loan program, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SJR 83: Recognizing November 10, 2025, as the 50th anniversary of the tragic loss of the crew of SS Edmund Fitzgerald.
Passed the Senate, then stopped.

2011–12 session: 7

Aug 2, 2012
AB 40: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2011 legislature.
Became law.
Apr 5, 2012
AB 176: Minimum harvesting requirements for commercial fishing in the Great Lakes.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 573: Stewardship funding for grants to control invasive species.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 12, 2012
AB 586: Professional land surveyors; the practice of professional land surveying; surveying land abutting navigable waters; various changes regarding platting, surveying, and certified survey maps; and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 27: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2011 legislature.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 113: Minimum harvesting requirements for commercial fishing in the Great Lakes.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 444: Professional land surveyors; the practice of professional land surveying; surveying land abutting navigable waters; various changes regarding platting, surveying, and certified survey maps; and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.

2009–10 session: 17

May 26, 2010
AB 75: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2009 legislature.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 90: The operation of motorboats, other than personal watercraft, at slow-no-wake speed within a given distance of the shoreline of a lake.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 431: Fees charged to qualified lake associations for certain permits to control aquatic plants.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 436: Stewardship funding for grants to control invasive species.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 501: Attachment of territory to public inland lake protection and rehabilitation districts and changing boundaries of proposed public inland lake protection and rehabilitation districts.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 636: The use of metal detectors on certain land and in lakes and the removal of items found on that land or in those lakes.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 795: Membership of boards of commissioners established for public inland lake protection and rehabilitation districts.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 844: Groundwater management, water conservation, and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 869: Operation of all-terrain vehicles by persons who are under 12 years of age.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 925: Discharging a firearm within 100 yards of a building devoted to human occupancy while in waters adjacent to land owned by another person and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.

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Apr 28, 2010
AB 942: The operation of motor vehicles on the exposed beds of outlying waters to control Phragmites australis.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Dec 16, 2009
AR 16: Urging and authorizing the attorney general to pursue every legal means available to prevent Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes.
Adopted.
Jul 16, 2009
SB 12: The operation of motorboats, other than personal watercraft, at slow-no-wake speed within a given distance of the shoreline of a lake.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 432: The use of metal detectors on certain land and in lakes and the removal of items found on that land or in those lakes.
Stopped in committee.
May 20, 2010
SB 614: The operation of motor vehicles on the exposed beds of outlying waters to control Phragmites australis.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 620: Groundwater management, water conservation, and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SR 8: Urging and authorizing the attorney general to pursue every legal means available to prevent Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes.
Stopped in committee.

Dates are each bill's latest recorded action. Every subject