Introduced
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To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential supplemental appropriation for the State Police and the state health and welfare department in Fiscal Year 2020-2021. This bill contains nominal appropriations only, but may be amended at a later date to replace them with real money.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the bill pass.
Passed in the Senate 35 to 0 (details)
To appropriate $445.7 million in supplemental spending in the current 2020-21 budget, all but $21 million federal dollars. Of this, $378.3 million would go to rental housing subsidies and $46.3 million to State Police disaster assistance accounts. The also would use $21 million state dollars to "buy back" certain corporate welfare subsidies. As with other budget bills passed in the same week this bill uses federal epidemic-related federal stimulus dollars to shift the cost of some spending from state to federal taxpayers.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Substitute offered
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The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 105 to 4 (details)
To authorize an additional $2.239 billion in state government spending in the current 2020-21 fiscal year, of which all but $21 million are federal "stimulus" and epidemic relief dollars. Of this $1.831 is social welfare spending including rental housing subsidies, $65 million covers State Police emergency and disaster-related expenses, and $21 million is related to obligations incurred by a failed state "venture capital" subsidy scheme <a href="https://www.michiganvotes.org/2003-SB-834">enacted in 2003</a>.
Passed in the Senate 35 to 0 (details)
