Introduced
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To provide the “template” or “place holder” for a Fiscal Year 2008-2009 Department of Corrections budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.
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-1095-U.htm">analysis</a> from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 38 to 0 (details)
The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2008-2009 Department of Corrections budget. This would appropriate $2.052 billion in gross spending, compared to $2.078 billion, which was the FY 2007-2008 amount enrolled in 2007. Of this, $1.978 billion will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2007-2008 amount of $1.996 billion. The budget would be $9 million higher, except that to signal its displeasure with the department’s failure to make required reports to the legislature and to implement a “prisoner re-entry” initiative, this amount was removed from the central administration funding.
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 more see details see the <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/billanalysis/House/pdf/2007-HLA-1095-3.pdf">analysis</a> from the non-partisan House Fiscal Agency.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the Department of Corrections to find $79.1 million in "budgetary savings" without reducing the amount it proposes to spend on staff, paroling more prisoners or cutting law enforcement grants, and disburse that money counties, cities, villages, and townships for the purpose of hiring additional police.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To impose a 20 percent surcharge on all items purchased by prisoners in prison stores, with a few specified exceptions including mandatory health items, and allocate 45 percent of the extra revenue to train new State Police troopers.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To impose a 5 percent across-the-board cut in the amount proposed for the Corrections budget, with the department to figure out what specifically to reduce below the previously proposed spending level.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To eliminate a $9.2 million line item for prisoner "reentry to society" programs, and spend that instead on reimbursing counties for the cost of prisoners kept for longer periods because of state sentencing revisions. Also, to use some of that money for a study to "fine-tune" the per-diem amount the state reimburses counties for these diversions from state prisons.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the Department of Corrections 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 eliminate a provision that imposes extensive reporting and additional procedural requirements on any proposal by the Department of Corrections to competitively contract out any function to private vendors, and prohibits privatizing a service unless the savings would be at least 5 percent.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the Department of Corrections to get more than one bid on outsourced prisoner health care contracts, and if only one firm bids, to issue a new request for proposals.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To strip out a provision prohibiting county jails from charging prisoners more than the actual cost for telephone calls.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the Department of Corrections to cooperate with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to maximize the number of illegal alien prisoners released to federal custody and deported.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To establish as the "intent of the legislature" that the Department of Corrections and the Department of Human Services examine the potential of placing up to 140 children in the west wing of the Woodland center and in the Sequoyah center on the campus of the W.J. Maxey training school.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 60 to 47 (details)
The House version of the Fiscal Year 2008-2009 Department of Corrections budget. This would appropriate $2.044 billion in gross spending, compared to $2.078 billion, which was the FY 2007-2008 amount enrolled in 2007. Of this, $1.978 billion will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2007-2008 amount of $1.996 billion.
Failed in the Senate 16 to 22 (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 67 to 40 (details)
The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year 2008-2009 Department of Corrections budget. This would appropriate $2.040 billion in gross spending, compared to $2.078 billion, which was the FY 2007-2008 amount enrolled in 2007. Of this, $1.975 billion will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2007-2008 amount of $1.996 billion. For budget details see House Fiscal Agency <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/billanalysis/House/pdf/2007-HLA-1095-8.pdf">analysis</a>.
Passed in the Senate 35 to 2 (details)
