2017 Senate Bill 135

Appropriations: Department of Health and Human Services

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 9, 2017

Introduced by Sen. Jim Marleau (R-12)

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

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

The Senate version of the Department of Health Human Services budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2017. This would appropriate $25.401 billion in gross spending. Of this, $18.345 billion is federal money, and the rest is from state and local taxes and fees.

May 3, 2017

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-3) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

Amendment offered

To adopt 24 individual amendments to various spending line item amounts, conditions, definitions, etc.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Margaret O’Brien (R-20)

To spend an additional $500,000 for a "Special Olympics Healthy Athletes initiative".

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood (D-6)

To spend $2 million on a child lead poisoning elimination board.

The amendment failed 14 to 24 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Vincent Gregory (D-11)

To add an additional $196 million to spending on Medicaid behavior-related mental health services, and move forward a scheduled pay increase for direct care workers from next April to this October.

The amendment failed 15 to 23 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Curtis Hertel (D-23)

To increase spending and staff at state psychiatric hospitals and forensic mental health services.

The amendment failed 15 to 23 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Coleman Young (D-1)

To increase spending on disease control, prevention, and epidemiology programs, including ones related to drinking water supply issues.

The amendment failed 13 to 25 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Jim Ananich (D-27)

To increase spending on disease control, prevention, and epidemiology programs, including ones related to drinking water supply issues. Also, to spend more on "family, maternal, and child health" program administration, and some related divisions.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Coleman Young (D-1)

To spend more on grants to hospitals that tend to have more patients on Medicaid.

The amendment failed 12 to 26 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Ian Conyers (D-4)

To spend more on a welfare-related dental clinic program.

The amendment failed 13 to 25 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. David Knezek (D-5)

To spend more on "prenatal outreach and service" programs.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Rebekah Warren (D-18)

To increase staff and spending on administration of government behavioral health programs.

The amendment failed 15 to 23 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Bert Johnson (D-2)

To spend an additional $3.7 million on government homeless programs. Specifically, to give private and government social service agencies $16 for each night an individual stays, to be used for efforts to get these individuals into a permanent housing soonest and reduce recidivism. The budget includes a $100 "placeholder" for this and talks are continuing.

The amendment failed 14 to 24 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Coleman Young (D-1)

To spend more on welfare department information technology, and on "adult protective services programs with the goal of reducing the number of older adults who are victims of crime and fraud".

The amendment failed 14 to 24 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. David Knezek (D-5)

To spend $1 million from state tax revenue on a "refugee assistance program." Michigan has an <a href="http://www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/0,5885,7-339-71547_5526-15492--,00.html">Refugee Assistance Program</a> paid for with federal money, and this would add state money.

The amendment failed 12 to 26 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Coleman Young (D-1)

To increase spending on programs intended to reduce the absentee and drop out rates of children in households that are on welfare.

The amendment failed 13 to 25 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Vincent Gregory (D-11)

To eliminate a provision requiring integration of medical welfare physical and mental health spending and programs.

The amendment failed 16 to 22 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Jim Ananich (D-27)

To revise details of proposals to consolidate some county mental health programs, specifying that Genesee County's program would remain separate.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Steve Bieda (D-9)

To spend an additional $12 million on a particular mental health inpatient program in Macomb County.

The amendment failed 12 to 26 (details)

Passed in the Senate 25 to 13 (details)

The Senate version of the Department of Health and Human Services budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2017. This would appropriate $25.401 billion in gross spending. Of this, $18.345 billion is federal money, and the rest is from state and local taxes and fees.

Received in the House

May 4, 2017

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations