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 executive proposal for the Higher Education, Community College and Department of Education budgets with a single "omnibus" budget 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-5796-8.pdf">analysis</a> from the non-partisan House Fiscal Agency.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $4 million for Wayne State Uninversity operations funding.
The amendment failed 48 to 58 (details)
Amendment offered
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To add approximately 1 percent across the board to community colleges funding.
The amendment failed 48 to 57 (details)
Amendment offered
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To add approximately 1.6 percent across the board to community colleges funding.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To not give certain state college scholarships to students whose household income exceeds $100,000.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $714,400 to Northern Michigan University.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $1 million to the children of veterans college tuition grant program.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Substitute offered
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To fold into this education-oriented budget the contents of <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2006-HB-5795">House Bill 5795</a>, which contains the balance of the 2006-2007 state budget, except for the actual School Aid budget (<a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2006-HB-5789">House Bill 5789</a>). By moving the bill to "third reading" and only then adopting this substitute, House Republicans in effect "froze out" Democratic amendments, because to propose amendments on third reading requires "support" from a majority of the House. Votes on Democratic amendments shown here are actually on whether to "support" proposing the amendment. This parliamentary maneuver by the Republican majority was the latest episode in a sequence of bipartisan political gamesmanship that apprears to have began earlier in 2006 when Democrats sought to attach prescription drug lawsuit and solid waste regulation legislation to every bill considered in the House.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add a $100 "placeholder" for a potential diesel fuel quality inspection program, the details and exact funding amount of which will be negotiated later.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $200,000 in spending for Mid-Michigan Community College.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $200,000 in spending for Bay de Noc Community College.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To ban community colleges from entering into "project labor agreements" on construction projects, which require a contractor to mandate that each employee must join a union as a condition of working on a project.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To earmark $990,000 in community mental health service grants to the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To authorize $100,000 for a Medicaid cost allocation study project.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the Department of Community Health to annually certify that rates paid to Medicaid health plans are actuarially sound in accordance with federal requirements.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $1.2 million for anti-drug abuse grants.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To spend $100,000 for grants to clinics that provide family planning or reproductive health services to low-income women for the purchase of ultrasound machines.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To eliminate a provision that cuts $50 million from the Detroit-Wayne County community mental health services program (CMHSP) unless it becomes an official “community mental health authority” as defined in statute. "Authority" status would insulate the mental health services funding and administration from other parts of Wayne County government, and is opposed by Wayne County officials.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To impose a 35 percent surcharge on purchases by prisoners at prison stores, except for mandatory health care products, over-the-counter personal care products, hygiene products, stationery and cosmetics.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To prohibit the Department of Education from banning or discouraging the use of the word 'American' in referring to a citizen of the United States in its subject area content expectations for social studies. The amendment comes after a department employee reportedly told a meeting of educators that they should not use the words "America" and "American" when discussing the United States. State schools superintendent Mike Flanagan said such a policy "would be stopped in its tracks" by him.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the state police, in collaboration with the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards, to contract for a statewide standardized crisis management system that provides first responders and emergency managers with fact-based information when responding to emergencies at public schools.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $500,000 for canal work in St. Clair Shores.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $200,000 for a Muskegon County waste water treatment facility along the Little Black Creek.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To strip out $21 million for various waterfront development and other projects paid for with money borrowed under the "Clean Michigan Initiative" program.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To earmark $75,000 for a Barry County domestic violence program.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To earmark $1 million from money borrowed under the tobacco lawsuit settlement revenue "securitization" program for an "early drug discovery" program at Kalamazoo Valley Community College.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To shift the funding source for $3 million in juvenile justice spending from local sources to the state general fund.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the Department of Treasury to identify the actual cost of collecting state road tax money. Transfers of road tax dollars to the department and to the Secretary of State to cover these costs are a perennial budget controversy.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Co-sponsored by Reps.
To appropriate $975,000 for the Cherry Marketing Institute to be used for marketing assessments and for the promotion of the health benefits of tart cherries by the Cherry Industry Administrative Board.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $500,000 for state arts and cultural grants.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $1 million in spending for Northern Michigan University.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To revise the terms in a mandate to state universities to report to the legislature on status toward resolving shortages of middle and high school teachers for certain "critical shortage areas" as determined by the superintendent of public instruction, and also of a required report on university research, patent activity, technoology-related job creation, intellectual property rights policies, the number of math, science, engineering or health care degrees awarded, etc.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To establish as the intent of the legislature that certain funds appropriated for judges training be used to give judges' training on judicial responsibilities under Michigan rules of evidence pertaining to expert witnesses, including instruction on the responsibility of the courts to guard against and exclude unreliable expert testimony, on whether expert witness testimony is needed, on whether an individual proposed as an expert witness meets Michigan standards on qualification as an expert witness, on whether the manner in which an expert witness extrapolates and interprets data is science-based with sufficient facts to support the data, on whether a proposed expert's testimony correctly applies well-established principles and methods to the facts of the case, and on whether the alleged facts or data upon which an expert witness's opinion is based are likely to be allowed as evidence in the case.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $100,000 for printing the "red book" containing real estate laws and regulations, and related statutes.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Co-sponsored by Reps.
To prohibit the expenditure of funds for the development and enforcement of guidelines, standards, protocols, or other similar mandates that place more onerous measures on Professional Employment Organizations than are currently prescribed by statute. See <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2005-SB-171">Senate Bill 171</a> for background.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To break out the components contained in the Bureau of Fire Services line item and specify the funding level for each. The bottom line is not changed.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add four full time employees to the labor bureau's wage and hour division line item, with the funding source to be determined later.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $500,000 for dispute resolution at the Island Lake Recreation Area shooting range. This relates to complaints by neighbors of noise.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To authorize $500,000 for Cascades Park in Jackson County.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To direct the DNR to increase certain timber harvest levels on state land.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $1.5 million for state police secondary road patrols.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the state police to place emphasis on recruiting previously certified police officers for a new class of trooper recruits.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the state police to designate two full time employees to serve as data collectors for methamphetamine incident reports, and report to the legislature on this area of criminal activity.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To spend $32,000 for a "safe routes to schools" project in Eaton Rapids, involving extension of and improvements to sidewalks along North State street from Gould to beyond Greyhound drive, as well as connecting streets in neighborhoods near Eaton Rapids High School, Eaton Rapids Middle School, Greyhound Intermediate School, and Lockwood Elementary School.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the Department of Treasury to identify the actual cost of collecting state road tax money. Transfers of road tax dollars to the department and to the Secretary of State to cover these costs are a perennial budget controversy.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To earmark $15 million to widen US-127 to four lanes between M-50 and US-12 in Jackson County.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To earmark half a million dollars to be spent for a comprehensive signage program on I-94, US-127, US-223, M-50, US-23, and I-69 to assist traffic coming from all directions to the Michigan International Speedway.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To establish as the intent of the legislature that the Department of Transportation upgrade M-49 from M-99 to US-12 to a higher standard.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To establish as the intent of the legislature that sufficient transportation spending be earmarked to complete the rehabilitation of rail track between Hillsdale to Quincy.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To prohibit the Department of Transportation spending any more money on a study of a new crossing of the Detroit river international crossing project (DRIC) between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario without prior legislative approval.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To limit the Department of Transportation's discretion in shifting certain federal road tax dollars from certain local road projects.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To establish as the intent of the legislature that the Department of Transportation proceed with a congestion mitigation corridor study of US-23 from M-14 to I-96 in Washtenaw and Livingston counties, including environmental assessment of transportation improvements to US-23.
The amendment passed by voice vote
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 earmark $8.3 million in Medicaid money to outstate hospitals based on a formula that is weighted proportional to each eligible hospital's uncompensated care, and allocate $5 million to increase the Medicaid pharmacy dispensing fee, contingent on the receipt of additional federal money.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $5,700 to certain state "economic development grants".
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To establish that local governments are eligible for state loans for each sewage disposal system operated by the particular unit of government.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To spend $300,000 more on government subsidies to 4-H programs.
The amendment passed by voice vote
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.
The amendment failed 48 to 58 (details)
Amendment offered
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To require Medicaid recipients to provide proof of citizenship or legal residence, and require the Department of Human Services to turn in illegal aliens who apply for Medicaid.
The amendment passed 77 to 28 (details)
Amendment offered
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To prohibit the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (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.
The amendment passed 57 to 49 (details)
Amendment offered
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To establish as the intent of the legislature that the funding increase provided for Medicaid home help services be used for wage increases home help workers, bringing them all up to at least $7.00 per hour, and giving those already getting $7.00 or more at least a 50-cent raise.
The amendment failed 50 to 56 (details)
Passed in the House 60 to 46 (details)
An "omnibus" multidepartment Fiscal Year 2005-2006 House budget, which contains virtually all state spending except K-12 School Aid. Notable features include a lifetime four-year cap on cash payments to able-bodied welfare recipients, increasing some co-pays from Medicaid recipients, increasing Medicaid reimbursements to doctors, revising and increasing university funding distributions, and no increased taxes. Analysis from the non-partisan House Fiscal Agency is <a href="http://house.michigan.gov/hfa/PDFs/HB5795%20Full%20Summary.pdf">here</a> and <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/billanalysis/House/pdf/2005-HLA-5796-8.pdf">here</a>. In total, the budget appropriates $29.925 billion in gross funding (including federal money), of which $9.195 billion is from the general fund (state taxes but not fees and other state revenue).
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 16 (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.
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.
Failed in the House 1 to 99 (details)
Passed in the Senate 37 to 0 (details)
The House-Senate conference report for the "omnibus" multidepartment Fiscal Year 2006-2007 budget, which authorizes spending for the Departments of Agriculture; History, Arts and Libraries; Human Services; Labor and Economic Growth; Military and Veterans Affairs; State Police; Transportation; the Strategic Fund; the Judiciary. It also contains the "General Government" budget, which includes the Departments of Civil Rights, Civil Service, Information Technology, Management and Budget, State, and Treasury, plus the Attorney General, Executive Office, and the Legislature. It also includes some supplemental FY 2005-2006 spending. All told this amounts to approximately $12.818 billion in adjusted gross spending. Notable features include no lifetime four-year cap on cash payments to able-bodied welfare recipients. Analysis from the non-partisan House and Senate Fiscal Agencies are <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/billanalysis/Senate/pdf/2005-SFA-5796-R.pdf">here</a> and <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/billanalysis/House/pdf/2005-HLA-5796-8.pdf">here</a>.
Passed in the House 99 to 3 (details)
