2012 Senate Bill 952

Appropriations: Department of Education

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 14, 2012

Introduced by Sen. Howard Walker (R-37)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 Department of Education budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 24, 2012

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

April 25, 2012

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 program.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood (D-8)

To increase to 90 hours the maximum number of welfare-related "child development and care" service hours provided per recipient.

The amendment failed 15 to 23 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood (D-8)

To spend an additional $4.2 million on "college access challenge grants".

The amendment failed 12 to 26 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood (D-8)

To spend an additional $2 million on a government "college access" program.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 24 to 14 (details)

The Senate version of the Department of Education budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2012. This would appropriate $324.8 million, of which $244.5 million would come from the federal government. Note: This budget contains $156.1 million in welfare-related government programs for school age children previously part of the Department of Human Services budget.

Received in the House

April 25, 2012

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 2, 2012

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

Rep. Moss moved to substitute (H-1) the bill. The motion prevailed.

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.

Received in the Senate

May 3, 2012

Failed in the Senate 1 to 37 (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 30, 2012

Received

Failed in the Senate 0 to 35 (details)

To concur with the House-passed version of the bill.

Received

Passed in the Senate 31 to 5 (details)

The House-Senate conference report for the Department of Education budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2012. This would appropriate $328.9 million, of which $244.5 million would come from the federal government. Note: This budget contains $156.1 million in welfare-related government programs for school age children previously part of the Department of Human Services budget. Note: <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2012-HB-5365">House Bill 5365</a> contains an identical version of this conference report.

Received in the House

May 30, 2012