Public Act 353 of 2004

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• Introduced by Rep. Marc Shulman (R) on February 11, 2004, to provide a "template" or "place holder" for a Fiscal Year 2004-2005 Department of Agriculture budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.
  • Referred to the House Appropriations Committee on February 11, 2004.
    • Reported in the House on March 30, 2004, with the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
  • Substitute offered in the House on March 30, 2004. The substitute passed in the House by voice vote on March 30, 2004.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Clarence Phillips (D) on March 30, 2004, to add $10,000 to a “food bank” program for low income persons. The amendment passed in the House (99 to 7) on March 30, 2004. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. James Koetje (R) on March 30, 2004, to reduce bovine tuberculosis program spending by #350,000. The amendment failed in the House by voice vote on March 30, 2004.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Mike Pumford (R) on March 30, 2004, to include spending on aquaculture and cervidae programs in a $1 million market development earmark. The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on March 30, 2004.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Mike Pumford (R) on March 30, 2004, to include a "placeholder" for potential funding in this budget for Michigan state fair operations. The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on March 30, 2004.
• Passed in the House (104 to 2) on March 30, 2004, the House version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004-2005 Department of Agriculture budget. (Note: Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s proposed budget for this department is House Bill 5605 .) This appropriates $105.1 million in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $86.3 million, which was the FY 2003-2004 amount enrolled in 2003. Of this, $31.5 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2003-2004 amount of $31.4 million. The House version authorizes approximately the same amount of gross spending as the governor recommended. However, given that the House version transfers $5.4 million in spending for the state fair from this budget to the Department of Management and Budget, other spending proposed by the House is actually higher. Much more information on Michigan’s budget is available at Hot Topics: Michigan’s Budget Challenge at www.mackinac.org/4964. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Received in the Senate on March 31, 2004.
  • Referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee on March 31, 2004.
  • Reported in the Senate on June 1, 2004, with the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
  • Substitute offered in the Senate on June 2, 2004, to replace the House version of this budget with a Senate version which expresses policy differences between the bodies on certain spending items. See Senate-passed version for details. The substitute passed in the Senate by voice vote on June 2, 2004.
• Passed in the Senate (37 to 0) on June 2, 2004, the Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004-2005 Department of Agriculture budget. (Note: Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s proposed budget for this department is House Bill 5605 .) This appropriates $105.1 million in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $86.3 million, which was the FY 2003-2004 amount enrolled in 2003. Of this, $31.5 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2003-2004 amount of $31.4 million. The Senate version authorizes approximately the same amount of gross spending as the governor recommended. However, given that the Senate version transfers $5.4 million in spending for the state fair from this budget to the Department of Management and Budget, other spending proposed by the Senate is actually higher. Much more information on Michigan’s budget is available at Hot Topics: Michigan’s Budget Challenge at www.mackinac.org/4964. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Received in the House on June 2, 2004.
• Failed in the House (0 to 103) on June 9, 2004, 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. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Received in the Senate on June 10, 2004.
• Passed in the Senate (32 to 6) on September 21, 2004, the House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004-2005 Department of Agriculture budget. This appropriates $126.1 million in unadjusted gross spending, compared to the final FY 2003-2004 amount of $115.4 million. Of this, $30.0 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2003-2004 amount of $3.4 million. The budget includes $6.1 in new funding for the horse race industry raised from the increased Detroit casino tax . Another $10 million increase is in federal money for Emerald Ash Borer control. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Received in the House on June 10, 2004.
• Passed in the House (105 to 0) on September 15, 2004, the House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004-2005 Department of Agriculture budget. This appropriates $126.1 million in unadjusted gross spending, compared to the final FY 2003-2004 amount of $115.4 million. Of this, $30.0 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2003-2004 amount of $3.4 million. The budget includes $6.1 in new funding for the horse race industry raised from the increased Detroit casino tax . Another $10 million increase is in federal money for Emerald Ash Borer control. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Signed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm on September 30, 2004.