2011 Senate Bill 171

Appropriations: 2011-2012 Community Colleges

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 22, 2011

Introduced by Sen. Darwin Booher (R-35)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 Community Colleges budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 27, 2011

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. For details see <a href=" http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2011-2012/billanalysis/Senate/pdf/2011-SFA-0171-F.pdf">analysis</a> from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 21 to 17 (details)

The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2011-2012 community colleges budget. This would appropriate $285.8 million in gross spending, compared to $295.8 million the previous year. $195.8 million of this comes from the state School Aid Fund.

Received in the House

April 28, 2011

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 12, 2011

Substitute offered by Rep. Chuck Moss (R-40)

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 62 to 46 (details)

To "adopt" a version of this budget, but in fact replace all the appropriations with $100 "placeholders." This is essentially a means for sending the budget to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differences.

Received in the Senate

May 12, 2011

Failed in the Senate 0 to 38 (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.

May 25, 2011

Received

Passed in the Senate 21 to 16 (details)

The final House-Senate conference report for the 2011-2012 community colleges budget. This would appropriate $283.8 million in gross spending, compared to $295.8 million the previous year. $195.8 million of this comes from the state School Aid Fund. The House-passed version of this budget was in <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2011-HB-4325">House Bill 4087</a>.

Received in the House

May 25, 2011