Introduced
by
To take $5 million each year in the current and next two fiscal years from telephone tax money levied to pay for 9-1-1 (emergency phone service infrastructure, and use it instead to displace state general fund money in the State Police budget, thus avoiding the need to cut or reform other state spending. The infrastructure this phone tax was intended to create was completed several years ago and the tax was supposed to end, but was extended through 2014 in <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?Year=2008&PublicActNumber=379">2008</a>. The fund this money goes into was previously "raided" in <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?Year=2004&PublicActNumber=89">2004</a>, and again in <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?Year=2006&PublicActNumber=74">2006</a>.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the amendment be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Amendment offered
To limit the "fund raid" to two years but increase it to $7 million each year.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
To return any surplus phone tax left over after this "fund raid" to the phone customers who paid it.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Passed in the House 63 to 44 (details)
To take $7 million each year in the next two fiscal years from telephone tax money levied to pay for 9-1-1 emergency phone service infrastructure, and use it instead to displace state general fund money in the State Police budget, thus avoiding the need to cut or reform other state spending. The infrastructure this phone tax was intended to create was completed several years ago and the tax was supposed to end, but was extended through 2014 in <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?Year=2008&PublicActNumber=379">2008</a>. There was a previous "fund raid" on this money in <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?Year=2004&PublicActNumber=89">2004</a>, and another in <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?Year=2006&PublicActNumber=74">2006</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 revise the "fund raid" amounts to $5 million in the 2009-2010 fiscal year, and $7 million in the next year's budget.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 35 to 2 (details)
To take $5 million in the current fiscal year and $7 million in the next year from telephone tax money levied to pay for 9-1-1 emergency phone service infrastructure, and use it instead to displace state general fund money in the State Police budget, thus avoiding the need to cut or reform other state spending. The infrastructure this phone tax was intended to create was completed several years ago and the tax was supposed to end, but was extended through 2014 in <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?Year=2008&PublicActNumber=379">2008</a>. There was a previous "fund raid" on this money in <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?Year=2004&PublicActNumber=89">2004</a>, and another in <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?Year=2006&PublicActNumber=74">2006</a>.
Amendment offered
by
To close out the raided fund after this raid, and return whatever is left in it to the phone customers who paid the "fees".
The amendment failed by voice vote
Passed in the House 64 to 41 (details)
To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill.
