Introduced
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To provide the “template” or “place holder” for a Senate Republican version of a Fiscal Year 2007-2008 Department of Agriculture budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them. Note: The governor's proposed budget is contained in a different bill, <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-246">Senate Bill 246</a>, and it is 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 (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
To replace the executive proposal for this budget with one that expresses spending level and policy differences between the Republican-majority in the Senate and Governor Jennifer Granholm on certain spending items and funding sources. See Senate-passed version for more, and for details see the Senate Fiscal Agency analysis (link available through the “Text and Analysis” tab at the top of this bill’s MichiganVotes page).
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To adopt several program and grant reductions that Gov. Granholm recommended proposed, but which the Republican-approved budget substitute restored.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To reduce various programs funded by the Michigan agriculture equine industry development fund, and transfer $2 million from that fund to the Detroit police department.
The amendment failed 5 to 33 (details)
Passed in the Senate 21 to 17 (details)
The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2007-2008 Department of Agriculture budget. This appropriates $109.6 million in gross spending, compared to $113.6 million, which was the FY 2006-2007 amount enrolled in 2006, and $105.3 million proposed by Gov. Granholm (see <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-246">Senate Bill 246</a>). Of this, $28.8 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2006-2007 amount of $30.9 million; $21.2 million comes from federal sources; and the balance from other state levies and fees. Like other Senate budgets this one would require the department to reduce administrative costs by 1.2 percent, however it includes funding for several programs and grants that Gov. Granholm recommended cutting or reducing.
Motion to reconsider
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The vote by which the following bill was passed.
Consideration postponed
Withdrawn
The motion to reconsider the final passage vote.
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
The version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2007-2008 Department of Agriculture budget reported by the House Appropriations Committee. This budget expresses the will of the House Democratic majority, but it was subsequently replaced by a version that zeros out all line items as a way to accelerate House-Senate budget negotiations (see Espinoza substitute). This version would appropriate $108.8 million in gross spending, compared to $113.6 million, which was the FY 2006-2007 amount enrolled in 2006, and $105.3 million proposed by Gov. Granholm (see <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-246">Senate Bill 246</a>). Of this, $21.2 million is from federal sources; and the balance primarily from taxes and fees levied by state government.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the Department of Agriculture to post on the internet every expenditure it makes, including a description of the purpose of the expenditure.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To prohibit the department from spending money to provide employee benefits to the unmarried partners of employees.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $30,000 in additional spending for the northwest Michigan horticultural research station.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Substitute offered
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To adopt a version of the bill that essentially strips out all of the appropriations of the previous 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
Amendment offered
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To require the department to implement continuous improvement efficiency mechanisms that increase efficiency and reduce expenditures in its programs, and to report back to the legislature on these every six months.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 58 to 49 (details)
To send the Department of Agriculture budget back to the Senate "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 House-passed version of the bill. The vote sends the bill to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differencesdifferences between the House and Senate budgets.
Failed in the Senate 0 to 37 (details)
Received
Passed in the Senate 36 to 1 (details)
The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2007-2008 Department of Agriculture budget. This appropriates $109.4 million in gross spending, compared to $113.6 million, which was the FY 2006-2007 amount enrolled in 2006, and $105.3 million proposed by Gov. Granholm (see <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-246">Senate Bill 246</a>). Of this, $31.2 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2006-2007 amount of $30.9 million; $21.2 million from federal sources; and the balance from other state levies and fees.
Passed in the House 105 to 4 (details)
