Introduced
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To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2018-2019 Department of Health and Human Services. 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 require the department to produce lesson plans and materials on domestic violence, sexual assault and dating violence, lessons on “affirmative consent” and more. Also, to authorize spending an amount to be determined later to pay local health departments to inspect prison kitchens.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To authorize spending an unspecified amount on an African-American maternal health study pilot program focused on Detroit.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To spend an additional $6.4 million on non-Medicaid mental health services.
The amendment failed 15 to 21 (details)
Amendment offered
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To revise many details of a provision authorizing a pilot project that selected Medicaid Health Plans to contract directly with service providers.
The amendment failed 15 to 21 (details)
Amendment offered
To strip out a provision that would cut the pay of department officials if the federal government does not give the state permission to impose work requirements on able-bodied Medicaid recipients, which they would be required to do Senate Bill 897.
The amendment failed 14 to 22 (details)
Passed in the Senate 27 to 9 (details)
The Senate version of the Department of Health and Human Services budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2018. This covers welfare and Medicaid spending and is by far the state's largest annual appropriation. The bill would authorize spending $25.117 billion in gross spending, of which $18.345 billion is federal money, and the rest is from state and local taxes and fees.
Amendment offered
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To replace the previous version of the bill with one that contains no appropriations except a few $100 "placeholders" on some line items.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 106 to 2 (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 5578 and 5579.
Failed in the Senate 0 to 37 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
