Introduced
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To provide the “template” or “place holder” for a Fiscal Year 2005-2006 budget that uses the “Price of Government” process, which groups various government expenditures by issue area rather than department, prioritizes programs, and fully funds them in order of priority until the available money is used up, at which point programs “below the line” do not get funded. 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
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
To replace the previous version of the bill with one that uses this as the "vehicle" for an "omnibus" multidepartment FY 2005-2006 House budget. Find a non-partisan overview of the highlights <a href="http://www.mackinac.org/article.asp?ID=7136">here</a> (http://www.mackinac.org/7136).
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To remove a provision allowing funds to be directed to the Michigan Public Health Institute. Reportedly something like this has been done through administrative action so placing it in statute is not necessary.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To revise the chronic disease prevention line item to reflect a fund source change for a state arthritis program.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $500,000 for a program that provides services to families of "vulnerable" children between 0 and 3 years of age.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To authorize state money to be used as "leverage" in an effort to gain federal funding for a state Holocaust Memorial Center.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add a $100 "placeholder" for spending that would be authorized if the $1 billion in new government debt proposed by <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2005-SB-533">Senate Bill 533</a> is approved by voters on Nov. 8, 2005.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To correct a number of errors in funding source and other line item details.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To insert definitions of the nine "core" government functions identified by the House "Price of Government" exercise and amongst which the spending in this budget is divided. These include "Effective government," "Kids succeeding," "Mobility," "Prepared for jobs," "Resource conservation," "Safety," "Thriving economy," and "Vulnerable (people)".
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To strip out provisions authorizing the appropriation of new money “contingent” on receiving it from the federal government, and provisions “encouraging” state departments to issue contracts to businesses in “deprived and depressed” communities.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the Department of Corrections to postpone or cancel optional prisoner activities if a facility does not have enough personnel to ensure security.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To prohibit the Department of Natural Resources from expanding the Island Lake Recreation Area shooting range unless its dispute with Green Oak Township over the matter is resolved.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To give the Department of Natural Resources somewhat less flexibility in determining how much logging activity to authorize in state forests in 2006, and authorize a smaller expansion of the amount of hardwood timber for sale and harvest.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add funding for an American Indian tuition waiver program at state universities. This had been eliminated in budget reported by the Appropriations Committee.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To establish as "the intent of the legislature" that the Department of Corrections renegotiate its management contract and lease the GEO Corporation for the Michigan Youth Correctional Facility in Baldwin, with the aim of achieving savings pertaining to changes in security level. Gov. Jennifer Granholm proposes ending this lease and contract, but this budget keeps it.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To strip out an increase in state plan review and construction inspection fees charged to hospitals, adult foster care, homes for the aged, nursing homes, penal institutions, and schools.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To increase funding and personnel for preparing state forest timber sales.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To expand the allowable uses of funds appropriated for recreational boating subsidies so as to allow spending for the maintenance, construction, or operation of harbor facilities in state parks regardless of whether they produce revenuue.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To use the first $1.05 million of a 35 percent surcharge this budget proposes charging on purchases by prisoners to keep open the state police posts in Groveland, Grand Haven, and Iron River.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To insert $100 budget "placeholders" in case funds become available to pay for certain environmental studies.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 58 to 52 (details)
An "omnibus" multidepartment Fiscal Year 2005-2006 House budget. This is one of just three House budgets that will contain virtually all state spending. Together they authorize $39.7 billion in gross spending, about the same as the current year, and approximately $800 million less than recommended by Gov. Jennifer Granholm. This budget tightens eligibility standards for welfare and Medicaid, requires some premiums and co-pays for the latter, closes two prisons, revises university funding distributions, increases school funding, and requires no new or increased taxes. Find a non-partisan overview of the highlights <a href="http://www.mackinac.org/article.asp?ID=7136">here</a>, and detailed analysis from the House Fiscal Agency at http://www.house.mi.gov/hfa/PDFs/hb4831summaries.pdf.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Substitute offered
To strip out all of the appropriations of the House-passed version of the bill, leaving it in its orginal form as a "template" or "placeholder." This is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 22 to 14 (details)
To send the bill back to the House "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 House 0 to 102 (details)
To concur with a Senate-passed version of the bill. The vote sends the bill to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differences.
Passed in the House 109 to 0 (details)
The House-Senate conference report for an "omnibus" multidepartment Fiscal Year 2005-2006 House budget. This appropriates virtually all state spending covered by departmental budgets that “originated” in the House, but not those that originated in the Senate. Included is funding for the Department of Community Health, $10.29 billion, ($2.951 billion General Fund), up 0.3 percent from the previous year; Corrections, $1.877 billion, ($1.798 billion General Fund), up 6.3 percent; the Department of Education, $118 million, ($16.4 million General Fund), up 2.5 percent; the Department of Environmental Quality, $375.7 million ($31.8 million General Fund), up 16.4 percent; the Department of Natural Resources, $269 million ($25.5 million General Fund), up 2 percent; Community Colleges, $281 million, down 3.7 percent, and Higher Education, $1.733 billion ($1.57 billion General Fund), up 1.3 percent increase from actual FY 2004-2005 appropriations. The budget does not cut 15,000 current recipients from state welfare rolls, close two Upper Peninsula prisons, or substantially cut funding for Northern Michigan University and Wayne State University as part of a move toward college funding based on actual enrollments, all of which were in the House-passed version. (Grand Valley State, Oakland and Saginaw Valley State universities get large increases, and the others small ones.) The budget does eliminate Medicaid eligibility for some current beneficiaries (far fewer than the House-passed version, though), and requires co-pays for others. It does not include the Senate-passed provision requiring higher co-pays and monthly premiums for some able-bodied Medicaid recipients, but lower these if they sign an agreement to stop smoking and adopt other healthy behaviors.
Passed in the Senate 27 to 11 (details)
