Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Rules Committee on June 30, 2011. The 2011 session has ended.
2011 Regular Session
House Bill 3676
Makes legislative findings regarding water quality.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.
Makes legislative findings regarding water quality. Requires Environmental Quality Commission and Department of Environmental Quality to consider certain costs of implementing water quality standards in relation to human health benefits. Requires Department of Environmental Quality to identify certain permittees to apply for pilot water quality variance, and, if department approves variances, to submit variances to United States Environmental Protection Agency. Requires department to develop certain water quality variance templates if permittees do not apply for variance. Requires report to Legislative Assembly. Requires Department of Environmental Quality to begin work on multiple discharger water quality variance, or multiple discharger variances for multiple sectors, from applicable human health criteria for polychlorinated biphenyls or certain other pollutant and to submit variance to Environmental Quality Commission and, if adopted by commission, to United States Environmental Protection Agency. Requires report to Legislative Assembly. Requires Department of Environmental Quality to identify certain surface water of state where arsenic concentrations naturally exceed, or are likely to naturally exceed, applicable water quality standard and into which certain permittees discharge arsenic concentrations, and to propose revisions to water quality standards. Requires department to submit proposed revisions to Environmental Quality Commission and, if adopted by commission, to United States Environmental Protection Agency. Requires report to Legislative Assembly. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
Its course
May 23 to June 30, 2011, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action4 actions on 3 days
In the House of RepresentativesMay 23 to Jun 30 · stopped38 days
Waiting for a committeeMay 23 to May 230 days
RulesMay 23 to Jun 30 · stopped38 days
Text
Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.
In the House of Representatives May 23 – Jun 30
All 4 actions, as published
- May 23First reading. Referred to the desks of the Co-Speakers.House of Representatives
- May 23Referred to Rules.House of Representatives
- Jun 1Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
- Jun 30In committee upon adjournment.House of Representatives