Introduced
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To provide the “template” or “place holder” for a Senate Republican version of a Fiscal Year 2007-2008 Attorney General, Civil Rights Department, Civil Service Department, Executive, Legislature, Department of Management and Budget, Department of State, Department of Information Technology, and Department of Treasury. 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 href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-252">Senate Bill 252</a>, and 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 adopt a version of this budget 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). Amendments offered by Senators Kahn and Richardville, respectively, were adopted in the “Committee of the Whole” without record roll call votes to prohibit the Secretary of State from closing a branch office in Buena Vista Township (Genesee County) and one in the town of Milan. The amendments went further, to prohibit the Secretary of State, who plans to close nine branches in 2007 as a cost saving measure, from closing any branch open as of Aug. 1, 2007. Language was also added establishing a firmer state government hiring freeze, following reports of thousands of new hires under an existing “freeze,” but this would not apply to the Secretary of State or Attorney General offices, which are headed by Republican elected officials.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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The amendment failed 17 to 21 (details)
Passed in the Senate 21 to 17 (details)
The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2007-2008 General Government budget, which funds the Attorney General, Civil Rights Department, Civil Service Department, Executive, Legislature, Department of Management and Budget, Department of State, Department of Information Technology, and Department of Treasury. This appropriates $2.896 billion in gross spending, compared to $2.913 billion, which was the FY 2006-2007 amount enrolled in 2006, and $3.172 billion proposed by Gov. Granholm (see <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-252">Senate Bill 252</a>). Of this, $620.0 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2006-2007 amount of $607.3 million. Another $1.598 billion is from "restricted funds," or earmarked tax and fee revenue, compared to $1.658 billion the previous year. $1.086 billion of this budget is paid out in revenue sharing to local governments, compared to $1.107 billion the previous year. Like other Senate budgets this one would require the department to reduce administrative costs by 1.2 percent, but it exempts the Secretary of State and Attorney General from this provision.
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
To replace the previous version of the bill with one that reflects the budget preferences of the House Democrats. This was defeated only to allow consideration of the Tobocman substitute.
The substitute failed by voice vote
Substitute offered
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To replace the previous version of the bill with one that replicates in bill form the <a href="http://www.senate.michigan.gov/sfa/main/sacpres0911.pdf">list</a> prepared by Senate Fiscal Agency Gary Olson of $1.5 billion in cuts to various line items, assuming no efficiency-generating reforms or changes in how any government programs operate. The substitue is not a "proper" bill (because it proposes "cuts" in apppropriations that don't exist yet), and was offered as a political maneuver in the midst of an (unsuccessful) four-day attempt to get Republicans to vote for <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-HB-4087">House Bill 5294</a>, which would raise the state income tax from 3.9 percent to 4.6 percent.
The substitute failed 0 to 105 (details)
Substitute offered
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Consideration postponed
Substitute offered
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To replace the previous version of the bill with one that spends approximately the same as the previous fiscal year, and also would change the way the non-Constitutionally mandated portion of revenue sharing is distributed by adopting a per-capita distribution formula. The substitute would also tie-bar the bill to House Bill 4505, meaning this bill cannot become law unless that one does also. HB 4505 would require the expiration date of a drivers license issued to a non-citizen to be the same as the date on which his or her presence in the U.S. becomes illegal. Note: Most representatives voting on this subsititute knew that it would be replaced by the Tobocman substitute that essentially "zeroed out" the budget to move the process forward.
The substitute passed 60 to 49 (details)
Amendment offered
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To establish the revenue sharing payments to Tuscola County at $113,600.
The amendment passed 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
Passed in the House 58 to 51 (details)
To send the 2007-2008 General Government 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.
Failed in the Senate 0 to 38 (details)
Passed in the House 83 to 25 (details)
The House-Senate conference report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007-2008 General Government budget, which funds the Attorney General, Civil Rights Department, Civil Service Department, Executive, Legislature, Department of Management and Budget, Department of State, Department of Information Technology, Michigan Strategic Fund and Department of Treasury. This appropriates $3.123 billion in gross spending, compared to $2.913 billion, which was the FY 2006-2007 amount enrolled in 2006, and $3.172 billion proposed by Gov. Granholm (see <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-252">Senate Bill 252</a>). Of this, $660.9 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2006-2007 amount of $607.3 million. Another $1.703 billion is from "restricted funds," or earmarked tax and fee revenue, compared to $1.658 billion the previous year. $1.072 billion of this budget is paid out in revenue sharing to local governments, compared to $1.107 billion the previous year.
Passed in the Senate 29 to 8 (details)
