2001 Senate Bill 287 ↩

Senate Roll Call 864: Passed

To concur with the House-passed version of the bill. In this version, the bill is being used as a legislative “vehicle” to recognize revenue for nursing homes to be generated by a “Michigan Medicaid Quality Assurance Assessment” (MMQAA) program that would impose a new "bed tax" on nursing homes. This is designed to allow the state to garner a greater amount of federal Medicaid dollars, which would be returned to the nursing homes in the form of greater Medicaid reimbursement rates, resulting in a net gain for most of them. For more details on the MMQAA see Senate Bills 1101 and 748, and House Bills 5103, 4373, and 4057. The bill would also reinstate $12.5 million funding for the Office of the Racing Commissioner (ORC), and related state horse race subsidies. This funding was line-item vetoed out of House Bill 5642, after the Senate had increased this amount with $1.3 million from State Services Fee Fund revenue. The bill includes several smaller supplemental appropriations.