Introduced
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To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2017-2018 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 (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Amendment offered
To add some $100 "placeholder" line items for spending proposals that are still being worked out.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To allocate $14.7 million to a particular rail grade separation project.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To earmark reductions from Gov. Rick Snyder's executive budget recommendation that have been adopted by Senate to road spending. Reportedly the reductions are intended to make room in the budget for either a tax cut or school pension reform.
The amendment failed 18 to 19 (details)
Passed in the Senate 32 to 5 (details)
The Senate version of the Department of Transportation budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2017. This would appropriate $4.347 billion in gross spending, of which $1.340 billion is federal money. $185 million of this budget goes to pay the debt on money borrowed by the previous two administrations to spend more on repair and maintenance projects during their tenure.
Amendment offered
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To replace the previous version of the bill with one that contains no appropriations; see House-passed bill for an explanation.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 63 to 44 (details)
To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations, leaving it as a "template" or "placeholder." This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets. The House has actually passed its version of the full budget in two "omnibus" bills, House Bills 4313 and 4323.
Failed in the Senate 0 to 38 (details)
Received
