2007 House Bill 5344 / 2008 Public Act 113

Appropriations: 2007-2008 budget

Introduced in the House

Oct. 24, 2007

Introduced by Rep. George Cushingberry (D-8)

To provide a "template" or "place holder" for a potential multidepartment appropriation for Fiscal Year 2007-2008. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include some.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

March 19, 2008

Reported without amendment

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

March 20, 2008

Substitute offered

To adopt a substitute that contains actual appropriations (see Senate-passed version).

The substitute passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Daniel Acciavatti (R-32)

To require the department covered by this budget to post on their websites all its expenditures during a fiscal year, and the purpose of each. Note: Although passed, the amendment was not included in a subsequent substitute version of the bill that was adopted.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Bruce Caswell (R-58)

To appropriate an extra $6.5 million for economic development-related transportation infrustructure projects (indirect subsidies to particular businesses), of which half would be spent in rural counties and half in urban ones. Note: Although passed, the amendment was not included in a subsequent substitute version of the bill that was adopted.

The amendment passed by voice vote

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

To strip out $10 million more for welfare recipient daycare subsidies included in the bill.

The amendment failed 42 to 64 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. David Robertson (R-51)

To establish as "the intent of the legislature" that revenue sharing being withheld from Detroit because of its failur to complete financial audits required by law be permanently taken from the city and distributed to local governments for "special census" revenue sharing payments.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. George Cushingberry (D-8)

To adopt a substitute version of the bill that is essentially identical to the original substitute before it was amended, as a means to sweep away a series of Republican amendments that were added to the bill. This allows the amendments to be indirectly defeated without requiring "vulnerable" Democrats to cast "no" votes on them that might be used against them in a political campaign.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 61 to 45 (details)

To authorize $145.6 million in Fiscal Year 2007-2008 supplemental appropriations for various state departments and programs, of which $74.0 million is federal money, $47.9 million is from the state general fund, and $23.6 million is from fees, fines, royalties and other revenue raised in Michgian. Some $137 million of this is Medicaid-related, $26 million is welfare-related, and $10 million is to pay for the Jan. 15 presidential primary election.

Received in the Senate

March 25, 2008

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

March 27, 2008

Substitute offered

To replace the previous version of the bill with one that adds money for additional spending items, among them $1 million for "business incubators" in two particular Senate districts, and $250,000 for a watershed quality monitoring program.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 38 to 0 (details)

To authorize $134.6 million in Fiscal Year 2007-2008 supplemental appropriations for various state departments and programs, of which $72.4 million is federal money, $39.1 million is from the state general fund, and $20.8 million is from fees, fines, royalties and other revenue raised in Michgian. Some $137 million of this is Medicaid-related, $13 million is welfare-related, and $10 million is to pay for the Jan. 15 presidential primary election.

Received in the House

April 8, 2008

April 9, 2008

Failed in the House 40 to 67 (details)

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

Received in the Senate

April 17, 2008

To authorize $143.9 million in Fiscal Year 2007-2008 supplemental appropriations for various state departments and programs, of which $72.4 million is federal money, $39.1 million is from the state general fund, and $20.8 million is from fees, fines, royalties and other revenue raised in Michgian. Some $137 million of this is Medicaid-related, $17 million is welfare-related, $11 million goes to the Department of Environmental Quality, and $10 million is to pay for the Jan. 15 presidential primary election.

Passed in the Senate 37 to 1 (details)

Received in the House

April 17, 2008

Passed in the House 79 to 29 (details)

Signed with line-item veto by Gov. Jennifer Granholm

April 25, 2008

With the $1 million added by the Senate for "economic development incubators" in Macomb and Washtenaw counties among the vetoed items.

Received in the House

May 1, 2008

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations