Introduced
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The executive proposal for the FY 2002-2003 Family Independence Agency budget (welfare). This would appropriate $3.955 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $3.635 billion, which was the FY 2001-2002 amount enacted in 2001, excluding any supplemental appropriations. Of this, $1.208 billion would come from the General Fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the current year's $1.179 billion. The budget includes $88.5 million in additional federal food stamp funding increase, a $71.6 million increase in welfare spending, day care services funding shifts designed to draw more federal matching funds, and other adjustments to meet increased demand which is expected because of slower economic growth.(The FY 2001-2002 figures do not include supplemental appropriations, interdepartmental program shifts, funding source shifts, or cuts made by executive order later in the fiscal year, if any. These can be substantial, and will change the appearance of year-to-year comparisons).
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Substitute offered
To replace the executive recommendation for the budget with a version that adds another $131.7 million in federal food stamp funding, for a total increase of $220.2 million, to meet increased demand which is expected because of slower economic growth. The substitute includes a $71.6 million increase in welfare spending, day care services funding shifts designed to draw more federal matching funds, and other adjustments. It adds $10 million for the Commission for the Blind, shifts $5 million from transitional work support program to a before- and after-school program, and has a one-percent increase in reimbursement rates for adoption and foster care agencies and residential treatment facilities.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To increase the reimbursement to funeral directors, cemetaries, and crematoria for indigent burials.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To prohibit the Family Independence Agency from consolidating offices in such as way as to not have a full time presence in every county of the state.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $500,000 for the Family Independence Agency to perform safety checks on the children of former welfare clients who have lost benefits due to noncompliance with welfare refrom requirements.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To earmark $2.5 million from a potential refund of federal penalties previously paid for not having a uniform child support enforcement system to an increase in funding for cases of poor children receiving care from relatives.
The amendment failed 45 to 58 (details)
Amendment offered
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To earmark $2.5 million from a potential refund of federal penalties previously paid for not having a uniform child support enforcement system to pay for more liberal eligibility standards for the reimbursement of day care expenses to parents in welfare-to-work programs.
The amendment failed 46 to 57 (details)
Amendment offered
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To earmark $2.5 million from a potential refund of federal penalties previously paid for not having a uniform child support enforcement system to pay for higher reimbursement rates for day care expenses paid by welfare clients.
The amendment failed 46 to 58 (details)
Amendment offered
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To earmark $2.5 million from a potential refund of federal penalties previously paid for not having a uniform child support enforcement system to pay increase funding for a program to provide enhanced on-line monitoring of certain juvenile delinquents who have committed serious non-violent offences.
The amendment failed 35 to 66 (details)
Amendment offered
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To authorize the disbursement of undisbursed child support payments collected by the state and for which the proper recipients cannot be found to poor children whose families are not the recipients of or have not received court-ordered child support payments.
The amendment failed 45 to 58 (details)
Amendment offered
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To transfer $333,000 from welfare day care funding to fund certain "at-risk" children welfare programs.
The amendment failed 47 to 57 (details)
Amendment offered
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To require the Family Independence Agency to develop and implement an assistance program for disabled adults awaiting a federal social security disability determination.
The amendment failed 43 to 57 (details)
Amendment offered
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To require the Family Independence Agency to provide quarterly reports to the legislature on welfare worker caseloads for each county.
The amendment failed 46 to 57 (details)
Amendment offered
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To allow unspent funds from a $10 million grant of welfare money for before- and after-school programs to be used to expand the programs to other counties.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To advance the date of an increase in foster care payment rates.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To prohibit the Family Independence Agency from consolidating offices unless it has the consent of the county in which the consolidation is located.
The amendment failed 48 to 53 (details)
Amendment offered
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To prohibit the Family Independence Agency from closing offices unless it has sought input from residents and employees affected by the closure, and "discussed" the impact of the closure on the community with the legislature.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the Family Independence Agency to encourage recipients of state child clothing assistance to buy at thrift stores.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the Family Independence Agency to replace on a one-to-one basis all foster care and child protection services workers who take advantage of the early retirement incentive program offered in House Bill 5732.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $500,000 for the Family Independence Agency to perform safety checks on the children of former welfare clients who have lost benefits due to noncompliance with welfare refrom requirements.
The amendment failed 45 to 50 (details)
Amendment offered
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To allow funding not distributed from the "Teen Pregnancy Prevention Pilot Performance Bonus" program to be used to support teen pregnancy programs in the city of Pontiac.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To consider an in-home health or mental health, parenting, nutrition, child care, child development, and financial management education or counseling program as meeting the education/work requirements imposed by welfare reform as a condition for receiving welfare benefits.
The amendment failed 44 to 58 (details)
Amendment offered
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To allow the Family Independence Agency to use revenue from fees for child day care provider background checks.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the Family Independence Agency to designate an individual to provide information to faith-based, community-based, and nonprofit organizations regarding opportunities for them to participate in government-subsidized welfare-related programs.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the Family Independence Agency to provide quarterly reports to the legislature on welfare worker caseloads for each county.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $4 million to expand teen pregnancy reduction pilot programs.
The amendment failed 47 to 57 (details)
Amendment offered
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To require the Family Independence Agency to provide quarterly reports to the legislature on certain welfare worker caseloads for each county.
The amendment failed 46 to 58 (details)
Amendment offered
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To allow funding not distributed from the "Teen Pregnancy Prevention Pilot Performance Bonus" program to be used to support teen pregnancy programs in the city of Pontiac.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To increase the reimbursement to funeral directors, cemetaries, and crematoria for indigent burials.
The amendment passed 86 to 16 (details)
Amendment offered
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To prohibit the Family Independence Agency from taking disciplinary action against an employee that communicates with a member of the legislature or their staff.
The amendment passed 102 to 0 (details)
Passed in the House 99 to 5 (details)
The House version of the FY 2002-2003 Family Independence Agency budget (welfare). This would appropriate $4.088 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $3.635 billion, which was the FY 2001-2002 amount enacted in 2001, excluding any supplemental appropriations. Of this, $1.210 billion would come from the General Fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the current year's $1.179 billion. (The FY 2001-2002 figures do not include supplemental appropriations, interdepartmental program shifts, funding source shifts, or cuts made by executive order later in the fiscal year, if any. These can be substantial, and will change the appearance of year-to-year comparisons).
Substitute offered
To replace the House-passed version of the bill with one which makes some changes in the funding amounts, and in certain “boilerplate” language requiring or prohibiting various conditions and actions. The substitute adds $5.7 million for the before-and-after school programs, increases from $50 to $60 the welfare child clothing allowance, cuts $500,000 from a $1 million appropriation to a program to promote responsible fatherhood, and returns the maximum the state will pay for indigent burial payments to $2,450, after the House had increased this to $2,600. The substitute was amended to give preference to private placement agencies in providing child foster care services, to require a report on the cost effectiveness of such services, and to develop criteria for the placement of abused, neglected or delinquent children in residential treatment programs. Other amendments increases welfare line items by $3.2 million.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To make small changes in various items, thereby providing a "point of difference" between the Senate- and House-passed versions of the bill. This allows Senate members of a likely House-Senate conference committee to negotiate these items. Unless there is a point of difference, technically a conference committee may not change a particular provision.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 37 to 0 (details)
The Senate version of the FY 2002-2003 Family Independence Agency budget (welfare). This would appropriate $4.101 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $3.635 billion, which was the FY 2001-2002 amount enacted in 2001, excluding any supplemental appropriations. Of this, $1.213 billion would come from the General Fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the current year's $1.179 billion.
Failed in the House 0 to 99 (details)
To concur with a Senate-passed version of the bill. The vote sends the bill to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differences.
Received
Passed in the House 57 to 46 (details)
The House-Senate conference report for the FY 2002-2003 Family Independence Agency budget (welfare). This would appropriate $4.070 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $3.635 billion, which was the FY 2001-2002 amount enacted in 2001. Of this, $1.173 billion would come from the General Fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the current year's $1.179 billion. (The 2001-2002 figures do not include supplemental appropriations, interdepartmental program shifts, funding source shifts, or cuts made by executive order later in the fiscal year, if any. These can be substantial, and will change the appearance of year-to-year comparisons).
Failed in the Senate 17 to 15 (details)
The second House-Senate conference report for the FY 2002-2003 Family Independence Agency budget (welfare). This would appropriate $4.070 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $3.635 billion, which was the FY 2001-2002 amount enacted in 2001. Of this, $1.173 billion would come from the General Fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the current year's $1.179 billion. Note: The FY 2001-2002 figures do not include supplemental appropriations, interdepartmental program shifts, funding source shifts, or cuts made by executive order later in the fiscal year, if any. These can be substantial, and will change the appearance of year-to-year comparisons.
Passed in the House 61 to 41 (details)
Passed in the Senate 21 to 16 (details)
The second House-Senate conference report for the FY 2002-2003 Family Independence Agency budget (welfare). This would appropriate $4.070 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $3.635 billion, which was the FY 2001-2002 amount enacted in 2001. Of this, $1.173 billion would come from the General Fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the current year's $1.179 billion. Note: The FY 2001-2002 figures do not include supplemental appropriations, interdepartmental program shifts, funding source shifts, or cuts made by executive order later in the fiscal year, if any. These can be substantial, and will change the appearance of year-to-year comparisons. The conference report includes a number of specific line item cuts, but states that these would be suspended if the tobacco and cigarette tax is increased. This tax increase has been approved, so the actual appropriations will be higher than the nominal line item amounts..
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
