Introduced
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To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2013-2014 Department of Transportation 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 (S1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To increase subsidies to local mass transportation (bus) agencies, including an extra $7 million for new Detroit buses and maintenance.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the department to submit a report on its spending for planning associated with local governments.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 26 to 11 (details)
The Senate version of the Transportation budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2013. This would appropriate $3.493 billion in gross spending, compared to $3.466 billion in the current fiscal year. Of this, $1.198 billion is federal money, and the rest is mostly from state motor fuel tax and vehicle registration tax revenue. The budget does not include spending requested by the Governor from $1.2 billion in higher transportation taxes he has recommended.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Substitute offered
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To adopt a version of the budget that contains no appropriations, but is instead intended to launch negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 60 to 48 (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
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations