Introduced
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To provide a “template” or “place holder” for a Fiscal Year (FY) 2002-2003 multidepartmental supplemental budget. This budget contains no appropriations, but these may be added later to make changes to current or future appropriations.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
Containing appropriations of new federal money, and for number of other state government projects and departments. See House-passed version for details.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $250,000 for free health clinics around the state.
The amendment failed 18 to 19 (details)
Amendment offered
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To add $10 million for a grant to create a life sciences research and commercialization center in the Kalamazoo area, intended to keep in the area 75 to 100 scientists and support staff formerly employed by the Pfizer/Pharmacia Corporation. The $10 million will come from money that would have been used for a targeted tax credit that Pfizer will not receive, because current law makes the credit contingent on creating a certain number of new jobs. Some form of this project had previously been contained in various versions of the Higher Education and Michigan Strategic Fund budgets.
The amendment failed 16 to 21 (details)
Amendment offered
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To appropriate $4.8 million for a new 400-bed housing unit for female prisoners at the Robert Scott Correctional Facility, and eliminate $10 million for construction of a 336-bed housing unit and replacement food services building at the Camp Brighton Correctional Facility.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 36 to 1 (details)
A supplemental multi-department budget for FY 2002-2003. The bill appropriates $497.6 million in gross funding, mostly federal Medicaid money, and reduces current year general fund appropriations by $15.4 million. The bill adds $268.1 million for Medicaid, and $41.5 million to upgrade technology in the state’s centralized child support collection and payment system. It contains $10 million for a grant to create a life sciences research and commercialization center in the Kalamazoo area, intended to keep in the area 75 to 100 scientists and support staff formerly employed by the Pfizer/Pharmacia Corporation. The $10 million will come from money that would have been used for a targeted tax credit that Pfizer will not receive, because current law makes the credit contingent on creating a certain number of new jobs. This appropriation had previously been contained in various versions of the Higher Education and Michigan Strategic Fund budgets. The bill provides $1.5 million in general fund money for payments in lieu of property taxes (PILT) to local governments on some one-million acres of state land under the jurisdiction of the Department of Natural Resources. It contains a number of other appropriations for various government projects, including authorization for Natural Resources Trust Fund money to a number of conservation and recreation projects around the state. Finally, the bill appropriates money that will be used to pay the debt on state buildings in the next fiscal year.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Substitute offered
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To replace the Senate version of this budget with a House version. See House-passed version for details.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add an additional $20,000 in general fund money for the Department of Environmental Quality groundwater discharge program.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 108 to 0 (details)
A supplemental multi-department budget for FY 2002-2003 and FY 2003-2004. The bill appropriates $499.8 million in gross funding, mostly federal Medicaid money, and by replacing it with federal money reduces current year general fund appropriations by $13.3 million. The bill adds $268.1 million for Medicaid, and $41.5 million to upgrade technology in the state’s centralized child support collection and payment system. It contains $10 million for a grant to create a life sciences research and commercialization center in the Kalamazoo area, intended to keep in the area 75 to 100 scientists and support staff formerly employed by the Pfizer/Pharmacia Corporation. The bill provides $1.5 million in general fund money for payments in lieu of property taxes (PILT) to local governments on some one-million acres of state land under the jurisdiction of the Department of Natural Resources. It contains a number of other appropriations for various government projects, including federal money to enforce child support agreements, federal money for low income heating and housing programs, federal homeland security and voting system upgrades, and more. $3 million is appropriated to a new “Investor Protection Initiative” to pay for state-sponsored personal financial management skill training programs. The money will come from a projected $14.3 million from a national settlement related to charges of conflict of interest in investment banking and research analysis activities by Wall Street firms. There are many more appropriations and funding shifts contained in this bill.
Amendment offered
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To eliminate funding authorization for a new 400-bed unit at the western Wayne correctional facility, and reinstate $10 million for construction of a 336-bed housing unit and replacement food services building at the Camp Brighton Correctional Facility.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 29 to 1 (details)
To concur with the House-passed version of the bill.
