Introduced
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The executive recommendation for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2006-2007 Department of Transportation budget. This appropriates $3.442 billion in gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars), compared to $3.411 billion, which was the FY 2005-2006 amount enrolled in 2005. Of this, $1.169 billion is federal money (mostly from gas taxes), compared to $1.207 billion the previous year. Funding for public transportation would rise by $35 million to $283 million.
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
To replace the executive proposal for this budget with one that expresses policy differences between the Republican-majority in the Senate 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/Senate/pdf/2005-SFA-1097-F.pdf">analysis</a> from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency. The substitute was amended to prohibit funds from being spent on a controversial Detroit River international crossing study (DRIC), or to implement any recommendations made from such study.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add more public transportations spending, and increase a state Amtrak subsidy from $7.2 million to $8.2 million.
The amendment failed 18 to 20 (details)
Amendment offered
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To add eight addtional government employees to the "passenger transportation services" line item, at a cost of $$897,000.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $5.7 million to the $58.9 million the budget authorizes for bus purchase subsidies to local governments.
The amendment failed 18 to 20 (details)
Amendment offered
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To add $897,000 in "economic development" project spending.
The amendment failed 16 to 22 (details)
Passed in the Senate 38 to 0 (details)
The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2006-2007 Department of Transportation budget. This appropriates $3.431 billion in gross spending, compared to $3.411 billion, which was the FY 2005-2006 amount enrolled in 2005. Of this, $1.169 billion is federal money (mostly from gas taxes), compared to $1.207 billion the previous year. Funding for public transportation would rise to approximately $295 million.
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 strip out all of the appropriations from the Senate-passed version of the bill, leaving it as just a "shell" 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 House 76 to 28 (details)
To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations, leaving it 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 Senate 0 to 37 (details)
To concur with a House-passed version of the bill. The vote sends the bill to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differences.
