Introduced
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The executive recommendation for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2005-2006 Department of Transportation budget. This appropriates $3.417 billion in gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars), compared to $3.283 billion, which was the FY 2004-2005 amount enrolled in 2004. Of this, $1.207 billion is federal money (mostly from gas taxes). Much more information on Michigan’s budget is available at <a href="http://www.mackinac.org/article.asp?ID=4964">Hot Topics: Michigan’s Budget Challenge</a> at www.mackinac.org/4964.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
To replace the executive proposal for this budget with one that expresses policy differences between the Republican-majority in the Senate and Governor Jennifer Granholm on certain spending items and funding sources. Among other things, the bill does not include additional funding for Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s “Jobs Today” public works proposal. For much more detail see <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/billanalysis/senate/pdf/2005-SFA-0281-F.pdf">analysis</a> from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency”>analysis</a> from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To use approximately $1 million in state money to continue funding a particular program that previously had been funded with a federal grant that has not been renewed.
The amendment failed 16 to 22 (details)
Amendment offered
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To remove a provision of this budget that prohibits any of the money it appropriates from being used to fund the Detroit People Mover.
The amendment failed 13 to 25 (details)
Amendment offered
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To add another $1 million to a $6.1 million state subsidy to Amtrak authorized by this budget.
The amendment failed 18 to 20 (details)
Passed in the Senate 35 to 3 (details)
The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2005-2006 Department of Transportation budget. This appropriates $3.406 billion in gross spending, compared to $3.283 billion, which was the FY 2004-2005 amount enrolled in 2004. Of this, $1.207 billion is federal money (mostly from gas taxes).
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
To replace the Senate-passed version of this budget with one that “strips” all actual appropriations. See House-passed version for explanation.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 106 to 0 (details)
To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations, leaving it in its original form 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.
Failed in the Senate 0 to 35 (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
Passed in the Senate 22 to 16 (details)
The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year 2005-2006 Department of Transportation budget. This appropriates $3.411 billion in gross spending, compared to $3.283 billion, which was the FY 2004-2005 amount enrolled in 2004. Of this, $1.207 billion is federal money (mostly from gas taxes). The bill cuts $1 million from the previous year’s $7.1 million state Amtrak subsidy, but restores this if Amtrak locates a maintenance facility employing 660 workers in Battle Creek.
Passed in the House 56 to 52 (details)
