SENATE BILL 1183
RS30679 / S1183
It This is the fiscal year 2024 original appropriation bill for the Department of Environmental Quality. appropriates a total of $165,914,000 and caps the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions at 379.00. The bill funds twelve line items, which provides: $191,900 for pay increases for engineers; $98,200 for a wastewater reuse analyst; $148,600 for a water quality program enhancement; $98,400 for an air quality compliance officer; $98,200 for a permit writer within the IPDES program; $98,200 for a data analyst within the IPDES program; $385,000 for additional operating costs within the IPDES program; $12,600,000 for federal funding for infrastructure grants; $400,000 for INL oversight; $1,500,000 for the superfund cleanup project and transfers said funds from the Water Pollution Control Fund to the Environmental Remediation (Basin) Fund as part of federal match requirements; $4,895,400 for federal project implementation; $555,000 for the central treatment plant in Kellogg. The budget also includes a reduction of 2.00 FTP and increase of $52,000 for the OITS consolidation. The bill also includes language requiring reporting, cash transfers, reappropriation, and directing the use of previously appropriated funds from the ARPA State Fiscal Recovery Fund.
This bill also includes three fiscal year 2023 supplemental actions, including funding for the a new electronic data management system, maintenance costs at the central treatment plant in Kellogg, and to purchases air quality equipment with ARPA funds allocated to the department. These supplemental actions utilize onetime funding that is removed before calculating the fiscal year 2024 Base.
| Date | Description |
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| 03/17 | Introduced; read first time; referred to JR for Printing |
| 03/20 | Reported Printed; referred to Finance |
| Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation; Filed for second reading | |
| 03/21 | Read second time; filed for Third Reading |
| 03/23 | Read third time in full – PASSED - 24-10-1 AYES – Adams, Bernt, Bjerke, Burtenshaw, Cook, Den Hartog, Grow, Guthrie, Harris, Hartgen, Just, Lakey, Lee, Lent, Rabe, Ricks, Ruchti, Schroeder, Semmelroth, Taylor, VanOrden, Ward-Engelking, Winder, Wintrow NAYS – Carlson, Foreman, Hart, Herndon, Lenney, Nichols, Okuniewicz, Toews, Trakel, Zuiderveld Absent and excused – Anthon Floor Sponsor - Burtenshaw Title apvd - to House |
| 03/24 | Received from the Senate, Filed for First Reading |
| Read First Time, Filed for Second Reading | |
| 03/28 | Read second time; Filed for Third Reading |
| Rules Suspended: Ayes 70 Nays 0 Abs/Excd 0, read in full as required – PASSED - 35-34-1 AYES – Allgood, Berch, Blanksma, Bundy, Burns, Cheatum, Chew, Dixon(24), Erickson, Furniss, Galaviz, Gannon, Garner, Green, Handy, Horman, Lanting, Manwaring, Mathias, McCann, Mickelsen, Miller, Nash, Necochea, Nelsen, Petzke, Raybould, Raymond, Roberts, Rubel, Sauter, Vander Woude, Weber, Wheeler, Yamamoto NAYS – Alfieri, Andrus, Barbieri, Boyle, Cannon, Clow, Cornilles, Crane(12), Crane(13), Dixon(1), Durrant, Ehardt, Ehlers, Gallagher, Hawkins, Healey, Hill, Holtzclaw, Kingsley, Lambert, Mendive, Mitchell, Monks, Palmer, Price, Redman, Scott, Shepherd, Skaug, Tanner, Wisniewski, Wroten, Young, Mr. Speaker Absent – Pickett Floor Sponsor - Petzke Title apvd - to Senate |
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| Returned From House Passed; referred to enrolling |