2016 House Bill 5294 / Public Act 268

Appropriations: 2016-2017 “Omnibus” budget

Introduced in the House

Feb. 2, 2016

Introduced by Rep. Al Pscholka (R-79)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for a Fiscal Year 2016-2017 “Omnibus” budget funding all state departments. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 21, 2016

Reported without amendment

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

April 27, 2016

Amendment offered by Rep. Henry Yanez (D-25)

To prohibit giving state contracts to a vendor is owes the state delinquent taxes.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Scott Dianda (D-110)

To prohibit spending money to move Senators' offices to a newer building.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Fred Durhal (D-5)

To longer contract out prison food services.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Winnie Brinks (D-76)

To require the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to take specified actions to increase the number of staff at a Grand Rapids veterans home.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Sam Singh (D-69)

To prohibit spending Flint water contamination emergency funds to defend government officials and staff against criminal charges, including the Governor and executive office officials.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Jeremy Moss (D-35)

To spend an additional $27 million on state revenue sharing payments to local governments.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Sam Singh (D-69)

To require state-appointed emergency managers of financially troubled municipalities and school district to file detailed annual reports.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Sam Singh (D-69)

To require the Attorney General to keep detailed records of each attorney assigned to a scandal involving unused rape evidence kits discovered in a Detroit police storeroom.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Stephanie Chang (D-6)

To spend $500,000 on a study of sulfur dioxide air pollution in Wayne County.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Jon Hoadley (D-60)

To require the Department of Environmental Quality to hold local public hearings on hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") permit applications.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Jeff Irwin (D-53)

To add $6.75 million in Medicaid spending.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Sarah Roberts (D-18)

To require state departments in general and the Department of Environmental Quality in particular to adopt specified public record retention policies.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Sarah Roberts (D-18)

To require the Department of Environmental Quality to shut down an oil pipeline that crosses the Straights of Mackinac.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Henry Yanez (D-25)

To add $2.5 million for "meals on wheels" and related social welfare programs for seniors.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Kristy Pagan (D-21)

To spend $100,000 to create a government "commission on pay equity." See House Bill 4486 for details.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Kristy Pagan (D-21)

To cap state Board of Education member travel expenses.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. John Chirkun (D-22)

To spend $1.4 million in grants to police departments in Benton Harbor, Hamtramck, Harper Woods, Inkster and Muskegon Heights.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Scott Dianda (D-110)

To require the Department of Transportation to sell one of the airplanes that it owns.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Bill LaVoy (D-17)

To cut the amount of transportation tax revenue used to cover Secretary of State administration costs, and reduce the amount it may charge for certain record look-up services.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Julie Plawecki (D-11)

To spend an undetermined amount to create a database detailing the location of lead water lines in residences statewide.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Fred Durhal (D-5)

To require the Secretary of State to run a trial program testing new election voting machines and equipment in the city of Lansing.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Jeremy Moss (D-35)

To spend $25,000 on a reflex sympathetic dystrophy/complex regional pain syndrome (RSD/CRPS) public education campaign.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Adam Zemke (D-55)

To add $50,000 to study the impact of imposing a health insurance mandate that would requires all policies to include coverage for eating disorders.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Sarah Roberts (D-18)

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Brian Banks (D-1)

To revise some details of the road construction contracting process.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Sarah Roberts (D-18)

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Anthony Forlini (R-24)

To require a state school reform office to hold a public hearing before dissolving a fiscally and/or academically failed school district, or placing it under a form of state receivership.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Chris Afendoulis (R-73)

To authorize an additional employee at the state Public Service Commission.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Rob VerHeulen (R-74)

To authorize spending an undetermined amount to adopt a "cloud-based, interactive analytics platform for Medicaid claims to identify areas of best practice, cost-reduction and quality improvement opportunities, and comparative cost analysis among providers, hospitals, and managed care organizations".

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Harvey Santana (D-9)

To move forward the deadline on a study investigating the impact of a juvenile justice reform measure.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Tom Barrett (R-71)

To authorize an extra $500,000 and five employees for a state veterans home in Grand Rapids for "the purpose of addressing staffing shortfalls".

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Henry Yanez (D-25)

To authorize spending an additional amount to be determined later on certain foster care activities.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Lisa Posthumus Lyons (R-86)

To authorize an additional $5 million in spending on election administration.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Passed in the House 76 to 32 (details)

The House version of the non-education portion of the state government budget for the fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1, 2016. This would appropriate $38.818 billion, compared to $38.623 billion authorized the year before. The education portion of the budget (K-12, community colleges and state universities) is in House Bill 5291. <br> Altogether, when both "omnibus" budgets are combined, the House proposes to spend $54.944 billion on all of state government next year, vs. $54.443 billion originally approved for the current year. Of this, $20.762 billion is federal money and $32.3 billion comes from state tax and fee collections, a 2.7 percent increase.

Received in the Senate

April 28, 2016

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

May 17, 2016

Passed in the Senate 24 to 13 (details)

To send the bill back to the House "stripped" of all actual appropriations. This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

Received in the House

May 17, 2016

May 18, 2016

Failed in the House 0 to 109 (details)

To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations. This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

Received in the Senate

June 8, 2016

Passed in the Senate 26 to 11 (details)

The non-education portion of the state government budget for the fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1, 2016. This would appropriate $38.772 billion, compared to $38.623 billion authorized the year before. The education portion of the budget (K-12, community colleges and state universities) is in Senate Bill 801. <br> Altogether, when both "omnibus" budgets are combined, the state will spend $54.912 billion next year, vs. $54.443 billion originally approved for the current year.

Received in the House

June 8, 2016

Passed in the House 71 to 37 (details)

The non-education portion of the state government budget for the fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1, 2016. This would appropriate $38.772 billion, compared to $38.623 billion authorized the year before. The education portion of the budget (K-12, community colleges and state universities) is in Senate Bill 801.<br> Altogether, when both "omnibus" budgets are combined, the state will spend $54.912 billion next year, vs. $54.443 billion originally approved for the current year.

Signed by Gov. Rick Snyder

June 29, 2016