Introduced
by
The executive recommendation for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2007-2008 Department of Environmental Quality budget. This appropriates $370.9 million in gross spending, compared to $444.2 million, which was the FY 2006-2007 amount enrolled in 2006. Of this, $33.8 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2006-2007 amount of $31.8 million. “Restricted funds” provided $251,379,000 the previous year, and $187,026,800 in this budget. 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 differences between the Democratic-majority in the House and Governor Jennifer Granholm on certain spending items and funding sources. Significantly, the House version does not include various environmental permit fee increases for businesses proposed by Gov. Granholm, but instead relies on more general fund money instead, which is implicitly premised on the legislature passing large tax increases.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Co-sponsored by Reps.
To add a $250,000 grant to Macomb County and St. Clair County to support a real-time water quality monitoring program in the St. Clair watershed.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 59 to 49 (details)
The House-version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2007-2008 Department of Natural Resources budget. This appropriates $372.9 million in gross spending, compared to $444.2 million, which was the FY 2006-2007 amount enrolled in 2006. Of this, $33.8 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2006-2007 amount of $49.6 million. “Restricted funds” provided $251,379,000 the previous year, and $187,026,800 in this budget. Note: House-passed budgets are premised on the legislature adopting tax increases in excess of $1 billion. This budget does not include various environmental permit fee increases for businesses proposed by Gov. Granholm, but instead relies on more general fund money instead, which presumably would come from tax increases.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Substitute offered
To adopt a version of the bill that essentially strips out all of the appropriations of the House-passed version, which 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 24 to 14 (details)
To send the Department of Natural Resources 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 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.
Motion
by
To suspend the House rules so as to allow the vote to be voted on immediately.
The motion failed 57 to 50 (details)
Failed in the House 0 to 106 (details)
Received
Passed in the House 56 to 53 (details)
The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2007-2008 Department of Environmental Quality budget. This appropriates $370.8 million in gross spending, compared to $444.2 million, which was the FY 2006-2007 amount enrolled in 2006. (Note: Much of that decline is from the depletion of money borrowed in the 1998 "Clean Michigan Initiative" bond proposal.) Of the gross spending, $31.7 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2006-2007 amount of $49.6 million; and $188.2 million is from other state sources including bonded indebtedness, fees, royalties, etc., compared to $251.3 million last year. Note: the budget presumes that the legislature will adopt approximately $18 million in increased environmental license and permit fees extracted from business by Jan. 15, 2008.
Passed in the Senate 25 to 13 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
