{"id":2840,"date":"2020-02-24T15:15:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T21:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/?p=2840&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=2840"},"modified":"2020-02-24T15:21:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T21:21:21","slug":"assembly-committee-on-environment-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/2020\/02\/24\/assembly-committee-on-environment-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap of Assembly Committee on Environment Executive Session on Tuesday, February 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Assembly Committee on Environment held an executive session on Tuesday, February 18, and heard the following bills relating to UW System:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/document\/session\/2019\/REG\/AB842\">AB-842<\/a>\u00a0<strong>PFAS Programs<\/strong>: providing funding related to PFAS programs and positions, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.<br \/>\n<strong><em>Passed in a 12-0\u00a0vote<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/document\/session\/2019\/REG\/AB843\">AB-843<\/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.<br \/>\n<strong><em>Passed including <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2019\/related\/amendments\/ab843\/aa1_ab843\"><strong><em>Amendment 1<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>, in a <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>11-1<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0vote<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assembly Committee on Environment held an executive session on Tuesday, February 18, and heard the following bills relating to UW System: AB-842\u00a0PFAS Programs: providing funding related to PFAS programs and positions, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Passed in a 12-0\u00a0vote &nbsp; AB-843\u00a0PFAS Standards: PFAS standards and grant programs, providing blood testing for [&#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-2840","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\/2840","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=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2849,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions\/2849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}