Introduced
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To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 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
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.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To increase community college spending by $13.8 million, and add some additional money to cover the extra amount colleges will have to contribute to cover underfunded employee pensions and optional retiree health insurance benefits.
The amendment failed 16 to 22 (details)
Amendment offered
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To not use money from the state School Aid Fund for this budget, but instead use money from the state general fund. Although under the state constitution the SAF is to be "exclusively for aid to school districts, higher education, and school employees’ retirement systems," the K-12 public school establishment contends that the 1994 Proposal A initiative earmarking a sales tax increase to the SAF means it can only be used for K-12 schools.
The amendment failed 19 to 19 (details)
Passed in the Senate 20 to 18 (details)
The Senate version of the community colleges budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2012. This would appropriate $294.1 million in gross spending, compared to $251.9 million the previous year.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Substitute offered
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To strip out all of the appropriations of the Senate-passed version of the bill, which is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 63 to 47 (details)
To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations. This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.
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.
Received
Passed in the Senate 21 to 15 (details)
The House-Senate conference report for the community colleges budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2012. This would appropriate $294.1 million in gross spending, compared to $251.9 million the previous year. Note: <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2012-HB-5365">House Bill 5365</a> contains an identical version of this conference report.
