Introduced
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To provide the “template” or “place holder” for a Senate Republican version of a Fiscal Year 2007-2008 Transportation 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-262">Senate Bill 262</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 prohibits the Department of Transportation from spending any more money on a Detroit River International Crossing study without explicit legislative approval. Among many other provisions the substitute cuts state public bus and transit subsidies by $14 million.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To repeal a provision that would prohibit the Department of Transportation from spending any more money on a Detroit River International Crossing study without explicit legislative approval. This relates to a controversy over whether an additional bridge over the Detroit River should be built with taxpayer dollars, which the department prefers, or by the owner of the current Ambassador Bridge as a for-profit venture without taxpayer dollars.
The amendment failed 18 to 20 (details)
Passed in the Senate 21 to 17 (details)
The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2007-2008 Department of Transportation budget. This appropriates $3.378 billion in gross spending, compared to $3.442 billion, which was the FY 2006-2007 amount enrolled in 2006, and $3.365 billion proposed by Gov. Granholm (see href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-262">Senate Bill 262</a>). $1.200 billion is federal money (mostly from gas taxes), compared to $1.169 billion the previous year.
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 Transportation 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 Gonzales substitute). This version would appropriate $3.378 billion in gross spending, compared to $3.442 billion, which was the FY 2006-2007 amount enrolled in 2006, and $3.365 billion proposed by Gov. Granholm (see href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-262">Senate Bill 262</a>). $1.200 billion is federal money (mostly from gas taxes), compared to $1.169 billion 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 2007-2008 Transportation 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 differences.
Failed in the Senate 0 to 37 (details)
Received
Passed in the Senate 37 to 0 (details)
The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2007-2008 Department of Transportation budget. This appropriates $3.360 billion in gross spending, compared to $3.442 billion, which was the FY 2006-2007 amount enrolled in 2006, and $3.365 billion proposed by Gov. Granholm (see href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-262">Senate Bill 262</a>). $1.200 billion is federal money (mostly from gas taxes), compared to $1.169 billion the previous year.
Passed in the House 88 to 21 (details)
