Introduced
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To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential supplemental natural resources department appropriation for Fiscal Year 2017-2018. 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 make nonpublic schools eligible for school safety grants.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To increase the proposed grant program spending to $50 million.
The amendment failed 15 to 20 (details)
Passed in the Senate 35 to 0 (details)
To appropriate $18.6 million for various purposes related to school and student safety. This includes $15 million in school safety grants, $3 million for a school "panic button app" emergency notification system, and $650,000 for a student safety hotline.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Substitute offered
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To adopt a version of the bill that uses it as a "vehicle" to deliver hundreds of million in additional spending.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add money for a Northern Michigan University construction project.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $40 million for 54,000 square foot state Capitol facility.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 84 to 23 (details)
To appropriate $1.256 billion for additional spending on a broad range of state programs and departments, including $115 million in so-called "Christmas-tree" grants for specific "enhancement" projects in the districts of a number of influential lawmakers. The spending includes money for a new Soo lock, Straits of Mackinac utility tunnel, university building projects, a new state Capitol facility, state broadband subsidies, and <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2017-2018/billanalysis/Senate/htm/2017-SFA-0601-E.htm">much more</a>. It also includes funding for an additional 175 child protective services workers, $114 million for roads, $20 million for PFAS contamination response activities, and a $100 million deposit in the state rainy day fund. Of the total, $409 million is federal money.
Passed in the Senate 34 to 4 (details)
