2017 Senate Bill 146

Appropriations: Department of Military And Veterans Affairs

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 9, 2017

Introduced by Sen. Mike Nofs (R-19)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2017-2018 Department of Military And Veterans Affairs budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 25, 2017

Reported without amendment

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

May 4, 2017

Passed in the Senate 37 to 0 (details)

The Senate version of the Department of Military And Veterans Affairs budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2017. This would appropriate $180.0 million in gross spending, of which $92.3 million is federal money.

Received in the House

May 4, 2017

May 17, 2017

Substitute offered by Rep. Laura Cox (R-19)

To replace the previous version of the bill with one that contains no appropriations; see House-passed bill for an explanation.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 64 to 43 (details)

To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations, leaving it as a "template" or "placeholder." This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets. The House has actually passed its version of the full budget in two "omnibus" bills, House Bills 4313 and 4323.

Received in the Senate

May 18, 2017

May 24, 2017

Failed in the Senate 0 to 38 (details)

June 22, 2017

Received