2011 House Bill 4289 / 2012 Public Act 89

Appropriations: Supplemental budget

Introduced in the House

Feb. 17, 2011

Introduced by Rep. Chuck Moss (R-40)

To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential supplemental multidepartment appropriation for Fiscal Year 2011-2012.This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

March 15, 2012

Reported without amendment

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

March 20, 2012

Substitute offered

To replace the previous version of the bill with one that contains actual appropriations.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Richard LeBlanc (D-18)

To give $278,300 to a particular local government that did not meet a fiscal reform deadline included in the previously adopted state budget, which made getting full state revenue money contingent on adopting certain reforms.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Ellen Lipton (D-27)

To automatically transfer to the state school aid fund any unspent money appropriated for general state operations.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Tim Greimel (D-29)

To increase from $250,000 to $1 million an appropriation the bill authorizes to create a Detroit-area regional transit authority.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Frank Foster (R-107)

To prohibit a state Corrections Department plan to discontinue perimeter patrols around prisons to save money.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Chuck Moss (R-40)

To authorize a Medicaid funding-source shift.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Chuck Moss (R-40)

To add "boilerplate" instructions to the budget related to certain subsidies for disabled people.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Frank Foster (R-107)

To spend an extra $200,000 to keep Upper Peninsula highway "welcome centers" open for longer hours.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Pete Lund (R-36)

To appropriate $9.8 million to create a state “Obamacare exchange” to administer the insurance subsidy entitlement created by the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.” Note: The amendment and roll call vote were done at this time to allow representatives to make a "statement" on the federal health care law prior to oral arguments on it being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The amendment failed 47 to 62 (details)

Passed in the House 105 to 4 (details)

To appropriate $72.6 in additional government spending during the current fiscal year for various items. Among these are $8.9 million for medical student subsidies the legislature had previously voted to eliminate; $11 million more State Police spending; around $26 million more in various Medicaid-related spending; $10 million for legal, accounting, auditing and other expenses incurred in state oversight of fiscally failed schools and local governments; "start-up" money to create a Detroit-area regional transit authority; and <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2011-2012/billanalysis/House/pdf/2011-HLA-4289-4.pdf">more</a>.

Received in the Senate

March 21, 2012

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

March 27, 2012

Reported without amendment

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

March 29, 2012

Substitute offered

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 32 to 6 (details)

To appropriate $72.6 in additional government spending during the current fiscal year for various items. Among these are $8.9 million for medical student subsidies the legislature had previously voted to eliminate; $11 million more State Police spending; around $26 million more in various Medicaid-related spending; $10 million for legal, accounting, auditing and other expenses incurred in state oversight of fiscally failed schools and local governments; "start-up" money to create a Detroit-area regional transit authority; and <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2011-2012/billanalysis/House/pdf/2011-HLA-4289-4.pdf">more</a>.

Received in the House

March 29, 2012

Amendment offered by Rep. Maureen Stapleton (D-4)

To give Detroit $200 million worth of state tax revenue.

The amendment failed 32 to 78 (details)

Passed in the House 108 to 2 (details)

To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill, which made some minor revisions and funding shifts.

Signed with line-item veto by Gov. Rick Snyder

April 12, 2012