Introduced
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To provide the “template” or “place holder” for a Fiscal Year 2008-2009 Community Colleges budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them. . Gov. Granholm's recommendation for this budget is (see <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2009-SB-1142">Senate Bill 1142</a>).
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 the fiscal and policy preferences of the Republican-majority in the Senate on various spending items and programs. See Senate-passed version for more, and for details see <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/billanalysis/Senate/htm/2007-SFA-1093-U.htm">analysis</a> from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 37 to 1 (details)
The Senate version of a Fiscal Year (FY) 2008-2009 community colleges budget. This would appropriate $302.2 million in gross spending, compared to $318.9 million, which was the FY 2007-2008 amount enrolled in 2007. All of this comes from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues). Note: The FY 2007-2008 budget was inflated by the inclusion of a delayed disbursement from the previous year’s budget. Gov. Granholm's executive recommendation for this budget is (see <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2009-SB-1142">Senate Bill 1142</a>). The budget would increase grants to community colleges by 2.4 percent to 3.9 percent depending on the school.
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 Senate version of this budget with one that expresses the preferences of the House majority on various spending items and funding sources. For details see the <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/billanalysis/House/pdf/2007-HLA-1093-3.pdf">analysis</a> from the non-partisan House Fiscal Agency.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To prohibit a community college from extending employee benefits to the unmarried partners of employees, except for pre- and post-natal costs.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To prohibit a community college from providing health care coverage to employees that includes reimbursement for abortions and related expenses, or entering a collective bargaining agreement that requires such coverage.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To establish as the "intent of the legislature" that one-third of the funding increase to each community college provided by this budget be used to assist those students who have "aged-out" of foster care with the cost of tuition.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require each community colleges to post a user-friendly website showing all its expenditures and the purpose of each.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To prohibit a community college from giving any tuition discount or assistant to an illegal alien, but to at least charge the standard non-resident tuition amount.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To earmark a $200,000 spending increase for a particular community college.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To establish as the "intent of the legislature" that each community college reduce tuition for each full-time student by the amount that the <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=237062">income tax increase</a> imposed in 2007 (raising the rate from 3.9 percent to 4.35 percent) took out of the median Michigan household.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Passed in the House 63 to 44 (details)
The House version of a Fiscal Year (FY) 2008-2009 community colleges budget. This would appropriate $310.6 million in gross spending, compared to $318.9 million, which was the FY 2007-2008 amount enrolled in 2007. All of this comes from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues). Note: The FY 2007-2008 budget was inflated by the inclusion of a delayed disbursement from the previous year’s budget. Gov. Granholm's executive recommendation for this budget is (see <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2009-SB-1142">Senate Bill 1142</a>). The budget would increase grants to community colleges by 2.4 percent to 3.9 percent depending on the school, and adds $7 million for nursing education programs.
Failed in the Senate 17 to 21 (details)
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.
Passed in the House 102 to 5 (details)
The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year 2008-2009 community colleges budget. This would appropriate $299.3 million in gross spending, compared to $318.9 million, which was the FY 2007-2008 amount enrolled in 2007 (that amount included a $25 million delayed disbursement from the previous year’s appropriation). This budget is all general fund money (funded by actual state tax revenues). Overall operations funding grants to community colleges would rise by 2 percent, with each school’s share determined by a political formula. For budget details see House Fiscal Agency <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/billanalysis/House/pdf/2007-HLA-1093-8.pdf">analysis</a>.
Passed in the Senate 36 to 1 (details)
