Introduced
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To provide a "template" or "place holder" for a Fiscal Year 2004-2005 capital outlay budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
To replace the previous version of the bill with one that adds actual appropriations. Among these are $1 million for a Michigan International Speedway pedestrian access project; $1 million for municipal cleanup and infrastructure projects in Detroit related to hosting the baseball all-star game; and $192,700 for purchases by Lake Superior State University. This bill also requires watchtowers manned full-time at high-security prisons, an item that has generated controversy.
Amendment offered
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To shift $600,000 from various unspecified state agency special maintenance projects to instead fund a "high initiative throughput screening" project at Kalamazoo Valley Community College.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To eliminate an exemption for Detroit to a deadline for getting more of their handicap accessible bus equipment into operating condition.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 97 to 1 (details)
A Fiscal Year (FY) 2004-2005 Capital Outlay budget. This appropriates $289.5 million in gross spending, $215.3 of which is federal money, for various government construction and repair projects around the state, including $202 million for airport safety and improvement projects. The bill also authorizes a number of future construction projects at state colleges and universities.
Which "killed" the bill by failing to pass it on the last day of the 92nd legislature, reportedly because the House had added too many "pork-barrel" items.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
