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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 capital outlay 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 by Rep. Scott Shackleton (R) on December 2, 2004, to replace the previous version of the bill with one that adds actual appropriations. Among these are $1 million for a Michigan International Speedway pedestrian access project; $1 million for municipal cleanup and infrastructure projects in Detroit related to hosting the baseball all-star game; and $192,700 for purchases by Lake Superior State University. This bill also requires watchtowers manned full-time at high-security prisons, an item that has generated controversy. The reported passed by voice vote in the House on December 2, 2004.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Alexander Lipsey (D) on December 2, 2004, to shift $600,000 from various unspecified state agency special maintenance projects to instead fund a "high initiative throughput screening" project at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on December 2, 2004.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Scott Shackleton (R) on December 2, 2004, to eliminate an exemption for Detroit to a deadline for getting more of their handicap accessible bus equipment into operating condition. The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on December 2, 2004.
• Passed 97 to 1 in the House on December 2, 2004, a Fiscal Year (FY) 2004-2005 Capital Outlay budget. This appropriates $289.5 million in gross spending, $215.3 of which is federal money, for various government construction and repair projects around the state, including $202 million for airport safety and improvement projects. The bill also authorizes a number of future construction projects at state colleges and universities.
  Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
• Received in the Senate on December 7, 2004, which "killed" the bill by failing to pass it on the last day of the 92nd legislature, reportedly because the House had added too many "pork-barrel" items.
  • Referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee on December 7, 2004.