Introduced
by
The executive recommendation for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2007-2008 Department of Corrections budget. This appropriates $2.001 billion in gross spending, compared to $1.940 billion, which was the FY 2006-2007 amount enrolled in 2006. Of this, $1.932 billion will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2006-2007 amount of $1.858 billion. Note: Gov. Jenifer Granholm’s executive budget recommendations are premised on the legislature adopting a 2 percent tax on services which along with other tax increases and a proposed reduction in business taxes represents a net tax hike of approximately $1 billion.
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 this budget with one that expresses the preferences of the House House majority on various spending items and funding sources. For much more detail see <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/billanalysis/House/htm/2007-HLA-4348-3.htm">analysis</a> from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the Department of Corrections to report to the legislature by Oct. 1 proposals to realize the $76 million in savings from sentencing reform policy changes the bill assumes.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 59 to 50 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Substitute offered
To send the bill back to the House "stripped" of all actual appropriations and $100 “placeholders” in their place. These and some changes in the remaining “boilerplate” language prescribing policies the department must follow establish “points of difference” with the House version, the presence of which makes them subjects for negotiation between the bodies. This vote 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
Amendment offered
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To add a "placeholder" where appropriations for testing prisoners for Hepatitis C testing could be inserted during House-Senate budget negotiations.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 24 to 14 (details)
To send the Department of Corrections budget back to the House "stripped" of all actual appropriations, and $100 “placeholders” in their place. These and some changes in the remaining “boilerplate” language prescribing policies the department must follow establish “points of difference” with the Senate version, the presence of which makes them subjects for negotiation between the bodies. 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 0 to 107 (details)
Received
Passed in the House 64 to 45 (details)
The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year 2007-2008 Department of Corrections budget. This appropriates $2.078 billion in gross spending, compared to $1.940 billion, which was the FY 2006-2007 amount enrolled in 2006. Of this, $1.996 billion will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2006-2007 amount of $1.858 billion. The budget closes four prison facilities for net savings of around $50 million.
Passed in the Senate 35 to 3 (details)
