Natural Resources and Agriculture Committee, Michigan State Senate

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The Natural Resources and Agriculture Committee (formerly the Natural Resources Committee) is a standing committee of the Michigan State Senate.

Per Rule 1.105 of the Senate Rules, committees in the Michigan State Senate are appointed by the Majority Leader unless otherwise called for by the Senate. Committees are appointed at the beginning of every two-year legislative session. All appointments to standing committees and subcommittees made by the Majority Leader must be approved by the Senate. The Majority Leader shall make appointments of minority members from a list submitted by the Minority Leader; while the Majority Leader can partially reject the list, the Minority Leader shall submit other nominations. The first person named to a committee will serve as chair; the second will serve as majority vice chair, and all others shall rank in the order they were named. The first minority member named shall serve as minority vice chair. In the absence of the chair and the majority vice chair, the highest ranking member present will preside as acting chair. A committee member, but not a chairperson, who has been absent for a significant period of time may be replaced by the Majority Leader until he or she returns.

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Function

The rules of the Senate and House do not describe the jurisdiction of the individual standing committees except that all Senate bills involving an appropriation must be referred either directly to the appropriations committee or to an appropriate standing committee and then to the appropriations committee. Traditionally, the assignment of bills follows topical lines.

Membership

2025-2026 legislative session

Natural Resources and Agriculture Committee, 2025-2026
Democratic members (4)	Republican members (3)	Third-party members(0)
Sue Shink Chair John Cherry Majority Vice Chair Sam Singh Dayna Polehanki	Kevin Daley Minority Vice Chair Roger Victory Michele Hoitenga

2023-2024 legislative session

Natural Resources and Agriculture Committee, 2023-2024
Democratic members (4)	Republican members (3)	Third-party members(0)
Sue Shink Chair John Cherry Majority Vice Chair Sam Singh Dayna Polehanki	Kevin Daley Minority Vice Chair Roger Victory Michele Hoitenga

2021-2022 legislative session

Natural Resources and Agriculture Committee, 2021-2022
Democratic members (1)	Republican members (4)	Third-party members(0)
Sean McCann Minority vice-chair	Ed McBroom Chair Jon Bumstead Majority vice-chair Rick Outman Wayne Schmidt

2019-2020 legislative session

Natural Resources and Agriculture Committee, 2019-2020
Democratic members (1)	Republican members (4)	Third-party members(0)
Sean McCann	Ed McBroom Chair Jon Bumstead Vice Chair Rick Outman Wayne Schmidt

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2017 legislative session

The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2017 legislative session.

Natural Resources Members, 2017
Democratic members (1)	Republican members (4)
• Rebekah Warren	• Tom Casperson, Chair
	• Phil Pavlov, Vice chair
	• David Robertson
	• Jim Stamas

2015 legislative session

The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2015 legislative session.

Natural Resources Members, 2015
Democratic members (1)	Republican members (4)
• Rebekah Warren, Vice chair	• Tom Casperson, Chair
	• Phil Pavlov, Vice chair
	• David Robertson
	• Jim Stamas

2013-2014

The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2013 legislative session.

Natural Resources, Environment and Great Lakes Members, 2013
Democratic members (2)	Republican members (5)
• Rebekah Warren, Vice chair	• Tom Casperson, Chair
• Morris Hood	• Phil Pavlov, Vice chair
	• Mike Green
	• Mike Kowall
	• Arlan Meekhof

2011-2012

The following table describes committee membership for the 2011 legislative session.

Natural Resources, Environment and Great Lakes Members, 2011
Democratic members (2)	Republican members (5)
• Rebekah Warren, Vice chair	• Tom Casperson, Chair
• Morris Hood	• Phil Pavlov, Vice chair
	• Arlan Meekhof
	• Mike Kowall
	• Mike Green

2009-2010

The following table describes committee membership for the 2009 legislative session.

Natural Resources, Environment and Great Lakes Members, 2009
Democratic members (2)	Republican members (3)
• Raymond Basham, Vice chair	• Patricia Birkholz, Chair
• John Gleason	• Gerald VanWoerkom, Vice chair
	• Bruce Patterson

External links

• Natural Resources Committee

Footnotes

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Current members of the Michigan State Senate

Senators

District 1

Erika Geiss (D)

District 2

Sylvia Santana (D)

District 3

Stephanie Chang (D)

District 4

Darrin Camilleri (D)

District 5

Dayna Polehanki (D)

District 6

Mary Cavanagh (D)

District 7

Jeremy Moss (D)

District 8

Mallory McMorrow (D)

District 9

Michael Webber (R)

District 10

Paul Wojno (D)

District 11

Veronica Klinefelt (D)

District 12

Kevin Hertel (D)

District 13

Rosemary Bayer (D)

District 14

Sue Shink (D)

District 15

Jeff Irwin (D)

District 16

Joseph Bellino (R)

District 17

Jonathan Lindsey (R)

District 18

Thomas Albert (R)

District 19

Sean McCann (D)

District 20

Aric Nesbitt (R)

District 21

Sarah Anthony (D)

District 22

Lana Theis (R)

District 23

Jim Runestad (R)

District 24

Ruth Johnson (R)

District 25

Dan Lauwers (R)

District 26

Kevin Daley (R)

District 27

John Cherry (D)

District 28

Sam Singh (D)

District 29

Winnie Brinks (D)

District 30

Mark Huizenga (R)

District 31

Roger Victory (R)

District 32

Jon Bumstead (R)

District 33

Rick Outman (R)

District 34

Roger Hauck (R)

District 35

Vacant

District 36

Michele Hoitenga (R)

District 37

John Damoose (R)

District 38

Ed McBroom (R)

Democratic Party (19)

Republican Party (18)

Vacancies (1)