2013 Senate Bill 189

Appropriations: Department of Insurance and Financial Services

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 13, 2013

Introduced by Sen. Mark Jansen (R-28)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2013-2014 Department of Insurance and Financial Services (a new department created by Gov. Rick Snyder). 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 30, 2013

Substitute offered

The substitute passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Bert Johnson (D-2)

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 34 to 2 (details)

The Senate version of the budget for a new the Senate version of the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2013. This would appropriate $76.3 million in gross spending. Among other things the budget authorizes $12 million to reimburse insurance companies for the cost of a new autism coverage mandate the legislature imposed in 2012.

Received in the House

April 30, 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.

May 28, 2013

Received

June 5, 2013

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations