2009 Senate Bill 245 / Public Act 128

Appropriations: 2009-2010 General Government

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 18, 2009

Introduced by Sen. John Pappageorge (R-13)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2009-2010 General Government budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 1, 2009

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

June 16, 2009

Substitute offered

To adopt a version that contains actual appropriations. For details see <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2009-2010/billanalysis/Senate/pdf/2009-SFA-0245-F.pdf">analysis</a> from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Glenn Anderson (D-6)

To add $17.5 million to the “<a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2005-HB-5047">21st Century Jobs Fund</a>” business subsidy program.

The amendment failed 16 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Gilda Jacobs (D-14)

To spend an additional $56 million on revenue sharing.

The amendment failed 17 to 19 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Samuel B. Thomas (D-4)

To add a $100 "placeholder" to allow negotiations to proceed on retaining 10 employees there pending decisions on if and how to divest the state of the State Fair property in Detroit, which Gov. Granholm has proposed no longer funding.

The amendment passed 36 to 0 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Glenn Anderson (D-6)

To prohibit the Attorney General from agreeing to a lawsuit or administrative enforcement settlement against a business or individual in which the money or goods are transferred to a third party, rather than being paid to the state. Instead, any transfer would have to come only after an appropriation was passed by the legislature. This would not apply to settlements involving disbursements directly to consumer members of a class action lawsuit brought by the Attorney General. Also to require the AG to file reports to the legislature disclosing details of all lawsuit settlements it enters into.

The amendment failed 16 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Gretchen Whitmer (D-23)

To require the Attorney General to annually report to the legislature the names and addresses of the special attorneys general it used the preceding fiscal year.

The amendment failed 16 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Gretchen Whitmer (D-23)

To require the Attorney General to annually report to the legislature and post on the internet the number of complaints received, investigated, and the number of violations prosecuted involving the Michigan occupational safety and health act (MIOSHA).

The amendment failed 16 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Gretchen Whitmer (D-23)

To require the Attorney General to annually report to the legislature and post on the internet the number of complaints received, investigated, and the number of court actions filed involving the state Item Pricing law.

The amendment failed 16 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. John Pappageorge (R-13)

To revise details of a proposed reduction proposed for the legislature's budget (which would take it from $110.9 appropriated for the current year to $105.0 million in FT 2009-2010).

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 20 to 16 (details)

The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009-2010 General Government budget, which funds the Attorney General, Civil Rights Department, Civil Service Department, Executive, Legislature, Department of Management and Budget, Department of State, Department of Information Technology, and Department of Treasury. This would appropriate $2.976 billion in gross spending, compared to $3.158 billion, which was the FY 2008-2009 amount enrolled in 2008. Of this, $637.6 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2008-2009 amount of $668.1 million. Another $1.596 billion is from "restricted funds," or earmarked tax and fee revenue, compared to $1.709 billion the previous year. $986.3 million of this budget is paid out in revenue sharing to local governments, compared to $1.085 billion the previous year.

Received in the House

June 16, 2009

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

June 25, 2009

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

Substitute offered

To adopt a version of this budget that expresses the fiscal and policy preferences of the Democratic-majority in the House on various spending items and programs. For details see <a href="to adopt a version of this budget that expresses the fiscal and policy preferences of the Democratic-majority in the House on various spending items and programs. For details see <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/billanalysis/Senate/htm/2007-SFA-1106-U.htm">analysis</a> from the non-partisan House Fiscal Agency">analysis</a> from the non-partisan House Fiscal Agency.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Bill Rogers (R-66)

To add $978,000 for the legislative auditor general.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Bill Rogers (R-66)

To strip out a provision prohibiting the Attorney General from agreeing to a lawsuit or administrative enforcement settlement against a business or individual in which the money or goods are transferred to a third party, rather than being paid to the state. Instead, any transfer would have to come only after an appropriation was passed by the legislature. Also to require the AG to file reports to the legislature disclosing details of all lawsuit settlements it enters into; the names and addresses of the special attorneys general it used the preceding fiscal year; and the number of complaints received, investigated, and the number of violations prosecuted involving the Michigan occupational safety and health act (MIOSHA) and the state Item Pricing law (these last two would also have to be posted on the Internet).

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Bill Rogers (R-66)

To reduce the number of employees in the lottery bureau from 181 to 171.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Bill Rogers (R-66)

To prohibit deducting money from government employee paychecks for union political action committees (PACs).

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Chuck Moss (R-40)

To require the department to post on the internet a listing of all expenditures, with the purpose of each (a "check register"), and also that federal "stimulus" money be posted online as separate line items.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Tom McMillin (R-45)

To require the Department of Information Technology to commission an independent study to identify which IT functions could be privatized and how much this would save.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Kathy Angerer (D-55)

To require the Secretary of State to pay for its operations as much as possible with fee and license revenue, rather than general fund revenue (from state taxes).

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Kathy Angerer (D-55)

To require the Secretary of State to report to the legislature its response to a recent Auditor General report on its operations.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. John Espinoza (D-83)

To strip out a $250,000 grant to a "Motown museum".

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Darwin Booher (R-102)

To require the department to send reports to the legislature every other month detailing the number of employees on its payroll.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 65 to 42 (details)

The House version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009-2010 General Government budget, which funds the Attorney General, Civil Rights Department, Civil Service Department, Executive, Legislature, Department of Management and Budget, Department of State, Department of Information Technology, and Department of Treasury. This would appropriate $3.081 billion in gross spending, compared to $3.158 billion, which was the FY 2008-2009 amount enrolled in 2008. Of this, $650.3 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2008-2009 amount of $668.1 million. Another $1.672 billion is from "restricted funds," or earmarked tax and fee revenue, compared to $1.709 billion the previous year. $986. $1.069 bllion of this budget is paid out in revenue sharing to local governments, compared to $1.085 billion the previous year.

Received in the Senate

June 26, 2009

Failed in the Senate 0 to 33 (details)

To concur with a House-passed version of the bill. The vote sends the bill to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differences.

Received in the House

Sept. 29, 2009

Received in the Senate

Sept. 29, 2009

The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009-2010 General Government budget, which funds several departments, the Executive office, the Legislature, and revenue sharing. This would appropriate $3.006 billion in gross spending, compared to $3.158 billion, which was the FY 2008-2009 amount enrolled in 2008. $116.9 million of the total is federal money. $991.6 million of this budget is paid out in revenue sharing to local governments, 11.1 percent less than the previous year.

Passed in the Senate 21 to 16 (details)

In the House

Oct. 1, 2009

Passed in the House 56 to 52 (details)

Signed with line-item veto by Gov. Jennifer Granholm

Oct. 29, 2009

Received in the Senate

Feb. 9, 2010

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations