2011 Senate Bill 179

Appropriations: 2011-2012 Department of Human Services (Welfare)

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 22, 2011

Introduced by Sen. Bruce Caswell (R-16)

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

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 26, 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-0179-F.pdf">analysis</a> from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 26 to 12 (details)

The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2011-2012 Department of Human Services (Welfare) budget. This would appropriate $6.786 billion in gross spending, compared to $6.953 billion the previous year. Of this, $1.010 billion will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues. $5.633 billion of this budget is federal money (of which $549 million is “stimulus” deficit spending).

Received in the House

April 27, 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

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 38 (details)

May 24, 2011

Received

Passed in the Senate 26 to 11 (details)

The Senate version of the 2011-2012 Department of Human Services (Welfare) budget. This would appropriate $6.83 billion in gross spending, compared to $6.95 billion the previous year. Of this, $1.07 billion will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues. $5.63 billion of this budget is federal money (of which $549 million is “stimulus” deficit spending). Among other changes it trims $9.9 million from a clothing subsidy welfare program.

Received in the House

May 24, 2011