Introduced
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To provide a "template" or "place holder" for a Fiscal Year 2006-2007 "Omnibus" budget for all state departments. 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 contains actual appropriations. This was ultimately folded into House Bill 5796, which contains appropriations for the entire state budget except School Aid. These bills replace the executive budget proposals with ones that expresses policy differences between the Republican-majority in the House and Governor Jennifer Granholm on certain spending items and funding sources. For much more detail see <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/billanalysis/House/pdf/2005-HLA-5795-3.pdf">analysis</a> from the non-partisan House Fiscal Agency. Note: The contents of this bill were "merged" with House Bill 5796, which with House Bill 5789 contains the entire House version of the budget.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To prohibit the Michigan economic development corporation (MEDC) from giving a tax break or any assistance to firms that are based in a "tax haven" country, or are located here "for the purpose of inducing the enterprise to locate outside" Michigan or the U.S., or that "contribute to the violation of internationally recognized workers rights" of workers in other countries (including "acceptable" miniumum wages and occupational health and safety regulations), and more. Consideration of the amendment was postponed temporarily, and then due to a parliamentary maneuver by the Republican majority, a vote was never taken, and further Democratic amendments were "frozen out," with a few exceptions.
Consideration postponed
Amendment offered
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To add $500,000 more for state police fire investigations. Consideration of the amendment was postponed temporarily, and then due to a parliamentary maneuver by the Republican majority, a vote was never taken, and further Democratic amendments were "frozen out," with a few exceptions.
Consideration postponed
Amendment offered
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To add $2 billion to fund Gov. Granholm's plan for a large expansion in the state Medicaid program, which is contingent on permission from the federal government. The budget already contains a $100 "placeholder" for this. Consideration of the amendment was postponed temporarily, and then due to a parliamentary maneuver by the Republican majority, a vote was never taken, and further Democratic amendments were "frozen out," with a few exceptions.
Consideration postponed
Amendment offered
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To reduce proposed Medicaid copays for seeking non-emergency treatment in a hospital emergency room from $6 proposed by the bill to $3. Consideration of the amendment was postponed temporarily, and then due to a parliamentary maneuver by the Republican majority, a vote was never taken, and further Democratic amendments were "frozen out," with a few exceptions.
Consideration postponed
Amendment offered
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To add $13.7 million for extra revenue sharing payments to certain local governments, with the money coming from tie-barring the bill to House Bills 4951, 4953, and 4909 (which would repeal various business tax deductions) meaning this bill cannot become law unless those ones do also. Consideration of the amendment was postponed temporarily, and then due to a parliamentary maneuver by the Republican majority, a vote was never taken, and further Democratic amendments were "frozen out," with a few exceptions.
Consideration postponed
Amendment offered
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To add $2.5 million for extra revenue sharing payments to certain local governments, including Detroit. Consideration of the amendment was postponed temporarily, and then due to a parliamentary maneuver by the Republican majority, a vote was never taken, and further Democratic amendments were "frozen out," with a few exceptions.
Consideration postponed
Amendment offered
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To narrow a provision that prohibits the Department of Corrections from expanding prison beds unless it first reopens a privately managed prison located in Baldwin that was closed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm in 2005.
The amendment failed 52 to 54 (details)
Amendment offered
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To require parole board interviews to be taped, the tapes saved, and any board member not present at the interview who votes on the prisoner's release to review the recording before voting. Also, to require that if the parole board makes a final determination not to release a prisoner, the written explanation for the reason for denial must include specific facts supporting the denial; and if it denies parole to a prisoner whose parole guidelines score does not indicate a low probability of parole, it must reconsider the decision in 12 or 24 months.
The amendment failed 47 to 58 (details)
Amendment offered
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To add $240,000 to the public health administration line item. Consideration of the amendment was postponed temporarily, and then due to a parliamentary maneuver by the Republican majority, a vote was never taken, and further Democratic amendments were "frozen out," with a few exceptions.
Consideration postponed
Amendment offered
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To add $1,068,700 for sennior center payrolls. Consideration of the amendment was postponed temporarily, and then due to a parliamentary maneuver by the Republican majority, a vote was never taken, and further Democratic amendments were "frozen out," with a few exceptions.
Consideration postponed
Amendment offered
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To add $400,000 for programs intended to reduce health status disparities between members of different races.
The amendment failed 53 to 53 (details)
Amendment offered
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To increase certain court filing and motion fees, and use the money to further reduce Court of Appeals case backlogs.
The amendment failed 47 to 59 (details)
Amendment offered
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To hire additional attorneys and support staff to assist the state appellate defender with ongoing workload needs.
The amendment failed 41 to 65 (details)
Amendment offered
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To add more money for grants to reimburse counties for the expenses of providing legal counsel to indigent criminal defendants, and hire additional attorneys and support staff to assist the state appellate defender with ongoing workload needs.
The amendment failed 41 to 65 (details)
Amendment offered
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To earmark $250,000 to establish a state trade office in a Middle Eastern country on the African continent.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To reduce proposed Medicaid copays for recipients who seek non-emergency treatment in a hospital emergency room from $6 proposed by the bill to $3. Consideration of the amendment was postponed temporarily, and then due to a parliamentary maneuver by the Republican majority, a vote was never taken, and further Democratic amendments were "frozen out," with a few exceptions.
Consideration postponed
Amendment offered
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To strip out welfare provisions that limit cash benefits to able-bodied recipients. The amendment essentially "pastes in" the welfare budget proposed by Gov. Granholm. Consideration of the amendment was postponed temporarily, and then due to a parliamentary maneuver by the Republican majority, a vote was never taken, and further Democratic amendments were "frozen out," with a few exceptions.
Consideration postponed
Co-sponsored by Reps.
To require the Department of Natural Resources to accept donations for trail development if the donation is for at least $950,000 and the sole condition is that that the trail be named after a particular individual or group. The amendment comes a week after the Natural Resources Commission turned down a $1 million donation from the Meijer stores family, which was contingent on the White Pine Trail being named after the store's founder.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the Attorney General to cooperate with local prosecutors, and not just local law enforcement agencies, in parole/probation "special operations" in selected precincts of Detroit, in which agents, escorted by law enforcement, make unscheduled after-hours checks to verify offenders' whereabouts and activities. Consideration of the amendment was postponed temporarily, and then due to a parliamentary maneuver by the Republican majority, a vote was never taken, and further Democratic amendments were "frozen out," with a few exceptions.
Consideration postponed
Amendment offered
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To require the Department of Social Services to collaborate with the Department of Transportation to make sure that state money is found to match all available federal matching grants for providing transportation subsidies to welfare recipients for purposes of getting to work. Consideration of the amendment was postponed temporarily, and then due to a parliamentary maneuver by the Republican majority, a vote was never taken, and further Democratic amendments were "frozen out," with a few exceptions.
Consideration postponed
Substitute offered
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To adopt a version of the bill that essentially "pastes in" in the budget proposed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm. Consideration of the amendment was postponed temporarily, and then due to a parliamentary maneuver by the Republican majority, a vote was never taken, and further Democratic amendments were "frozen out," with a few exceptions.
Consideration postponed
Amendment offered
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To require all parolees to be given regular tests to screen for the use of drugs or alcohol. If a parolee tests positive for substances prohibited by the order of parole, he or she must be returned to prison to serve the remainder of their statutory maximum sentence.
The amendment passed 85 to 21 (details)
Amendment offered
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To prohibit the parole board from granting parole to an inmate unless he or she had three negative drug and alcohol tests within the three months immediately prior to the grant of parole.
The amendment passed 86 to 20 (details)
Amendment offered
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Increase by 5 percent the copayments paid by prisoners for nonemergency health care in state prisons.
The amendment passed 73 to 33 (details)
Amendment offered
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To cut spending on welfare and shift the money to job training subsidies.
The amendment failed 37 to 69 (details)
Amendment offered
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To add $500,000 for delinquent child support enforcement.
The amendment passed 66 to 40 (details)
Amendment offered
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To shift money from the Department of Environmental Quality to the Department of Agriculture to accomodate a joint groundwater dispute resolution program.
The amendment passed 65 to 41 (details)
Amendment offered
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To shift employee funding from the Department of Environmental Quality to the Department of Agriculture to accomodate a joint groundwater dispute resolution program.
The amendment passed 60 to 46 (details)
Amendment offered
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To cut spending on welfare and shift the money to job training subsidies.
The amendment failed 45 to 61 (details)
Amendment offered
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To establish as the intent of the legislature that the Department of Transportation restore to its 5-year plan the design and construction phases for the widening of I-75 from 8 mile road to M-59 in Oakland county.
The amendment failed 48 to 55 (details)
Amendment offered
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To cut $300,000 from the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA), transfer the money to fire services, and prohibit MIOSHA from continuing to develop workplace ergonomics standards for Michigan employers. Also, to require MIOSHA to give a report to the legislature on any staffing time or activities related to the development of voluntary or mandatory ergonomic standards, whether contained in rules, guidelines, policy directives, or bulletins. Consideration of the amendment was postponed temporarily, and then due a vote was never taken, but a similar amendment was attached to House Bill 5796, into which this bill was merged.
Consideration postponed
Amendment offered
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To cut $200,000 from loans to parolees and shift the money to job training subsidies.
The amendment passed 82 to 24 (details)
Amendment offered
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To cut $100,000 from the state Office of Spanish Speaking Affairs and shift the money to English as a second language adult education programs.
The amendment failed 42 to 64 (details)
