{"id":2739,"date":"2020-02-10T15:14:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T21:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/?p=2739&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=2739"},"modified":"2020-02-10T15:14:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T21:14:01","slug":"assembly-committee-on-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/2020\/02\/10\/assembly-committee-on-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Assembly Committee on Environment- February 6 public hearing recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Assembly Committee on Environment held a public hearing on Thursday, February 6, and heard the following bill relating to UW System:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/document\/session\/2019\/REG\/AB842\"><strong>AB-842<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>PFAS Programs<\/strong>: providing funding related to PFAS programs and positions, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/document\/session\/2019\/REG\/AB843\"><strong>AB-843<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<strong>PFAS Standards<\/strong>: PFAS standards and grant programs, providing blood testing for certain individuals, requiring a cancer cluster study, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>President Ray Cross registered in favor of both bills. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assembly Committee on Environment held a public hearing on Thursday, February 6, and heard the following bill relating to UW System: AB-842\u00a0PFAS Programs: providing funding related to PFAS programs and positions, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. AB-843\u00a0PFAS Standards: PFAS standards and grant programs, providing blood testing for certain individuals, requiring a cancer [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2972,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-recap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2740,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}