Raising Fees Under Michigan's Environmental Bureaucracy

Description

This bill modifies various fees embedded in the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act affecting water, wetlands, and other environmental permits and services. It risks increasing costs on landowners, businesses, and job creators by feeding a growing regulatory apparatus. CPAC opposes using fee hikes to expand environmental bureaucracy and opposed this bill. The Senate passed this bill on 2025-09-25 by a vote of 19-17. The bill later became law.