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 Labor and Economic Growth 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 href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-258">Senate Bill 258</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.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $15 million for a nurses training subsidy program Gov. Granholm has proposed. The bill contains a $100 "placeholder" for the program, which may be increased if taxes are raised or other spending is cut.
The amendment failed 18 to 19 (details)
Amendment offered
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To add $42 million that Gov. Granholm has proposed spending for a “No Worker Left Behind” program giving free community college course tuition to laid off workers.
The amendment failed 18 to 20 (details)
Passed in the Senate 20 to 18 (details)
The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2007-2008 Department of Labor and Economic Growth. This appropriates $1.294 billion in gross spending, compared to $1.231 billion, which was the FY 2006-2007 amount enrolled in 2006, and $1.345 billion proposed by Gov. Granholm (see <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-258">Senate Bill 258</a>). Of this, $46.6 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2006-2007 amount of $47.4 million. Another $374.0 million is from “restricted funds,” or earmarked tax and fee revenue, compared to $347.0 million the previous year. Like other Senate budgets this one would require the department to reduce administrative costs by 1.2 percent. It also does not include $42 million Gov. Granholm proposed spending for a “No Worker Left Behind” program giving free community college course tuition to laid off workers, but does include $13.4 the governor recommended for a welfare-to-work program, and leaves the door open for a nurses training subsidy program the governor has proposed.
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 Labor and Economic Growth 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 Hammel substitute). This version would appropriate $1.301 billion in gross spending, compared to $1.231 billion, which was the FY 2006-2007 amount enrolled in 2006, and $1.345 billion proposed by Gov. Granholm (see <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-258">Senate Bill 258</a>). Of this, $49.8 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2006-2007 amount of $47.4 million. Another $378.2 million is from “restricted funds,” or earmarked tax and fee revenue, compared to $347.0 million the previous year.
The substitute 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
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 57 to 50 (details)
To send the Department of Labor and Economic Growth 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 differences.
Failed in the Senate 0 to 37 (details)
Received
Passed in the Senate 37 to 1 (details)
The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2007-2008 Department of Labor and Economic Growth. This appropriates $1.301 billion in gross spending, compared to $1.231 billion, which was the FY 2006-2007 amount enrolled in 2006, and $1.345 billion proposed by Gov. Granholm (see <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-258">Senate Bill 258</a>). Of this, $46.0 million will come from the state General Fund, compared to the FY 2006-2007 amount of $47.4 million. Another $378.8 million is from “restricted funds,” or earmarked tax and fee revenue, compared to $347.0 million the previous year. Like most other most other budgets this one would require the department to reduce administrative costs by 2.5 percent. It also does not include $42 in state tax dollars that million Gov. Granholm proposed spending for a “No Worker Left Behind” program giving free community college course tuition to laid off workers, but does have $1.5 million for a new nurses training subsidy program (rather than $15 million the governor wanted).
Passed in the House 82 to 27 (details)
