2013 Senate Bill 185

Appropriations: State Police

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 13, 2013

Introduced by Sen. Patrick Colbeck (R-7)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2013-2014 State Police budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 23, 2013

Reported without amendment

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

April 24, 2013

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 by Sen. Bert Johnson (D-2)

To add a provision requiring the department file a report on the "transition by the department to the regional policing model".

The amendment failed 12 to 24 (details)

Passed in the Senate 33 to 3 (details)

The Senate version of the State Police budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2013. This would appropriate $600.6 million in gross spending, compared to $577.9 million the previous year. Of this, $98.8 million is from federal revenue.

Received in the House

April 24, 2013

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 14, 2013

Substitute offered by Rep. Joseph Haveman (R-90)

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

May 15, 2013

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.

Received in the Senate

May 16, 2013

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.

June 5, 2013

Received

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations