2009 Senate Bill 253 / Public Act 133

Appropriations: 2009-2010 State Police

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 18, 2009

Introduced by Sen. Valde Garcia (R-22)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2009-2010 State Police budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 1, 2009

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

June 18, 2009

Substitute offered

To adopt a version that contains actual appropriations. For details see <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2009-2010/billanalysis/Senate/pdf/2009-SFA-0253-F.pdf">analysis</a> from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency. This was amended to prohibit money being used to pay a $3.7 million annual lease on a controversial new State Police headquarters building developed by Democratic political activist Joel Ferguson, which is supposed to replace a building the State Police gets for $1 per year from Michigan State University.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Michael Prusi (D-38)

To add money for a State Police crime lab in Marquette.

The amendment failed 16 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Ray Basham (D-8)

To require the State Police to provide "last resort" law enforcement services to communities that don't provide for their own policing, and to report to the legislature on how much this costs.

The amendment failed 16 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Michael Prusi (D-38)

To strip out a provision prohibiting money from being used to pay a $3.7 million annual lease on a controversial new State Police headquarters building developed by Democratic political activist Joel Ferguson, which is supposed to replace a building the State Police gets for $1 per year from Michigan State University.

The amendment failed 16 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Ray Basham (D-8)

To require the State Police to provide "last resort" law enforcement services to communities that don't provide for their own policing.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 26 to 9 (details)

The Senate verion of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009-2010 State Police budget. This would appropriate $540.7 million in gross spending, compared to $530.2 million, which was the FY 2008-2009 amount enrolled in 2008. Of this, $267.2 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2008-2009 amount of $284.9 million, and $130.6 million will come from state restricted funds, or earmarked tax and fee revenue, compared to $113.6 million the previous year. $101.8 million is from federal revenue.

Received in the House

June 23, 2009

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

Sept. 17, 2009

Substitute offered by Rep. Richard LeBlanc (D-18)

To adopt a version of this budget that expresses the fiscal and policy preferences of the Democratic-majority in the House on various spending items and programs. For details see <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2009-2010/billanalysis/House/pdf/2009-HLA-0253-8.pdf">analysis</a> from the non-partisan House Fiscal Agency.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Chuck Moss (R-40)

To require the department to post on on the internet a listing of all expenditures, including federal "stimulus" money, with the purpose of each (a "check register").

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Bob Genetski (R-88)

To establish as the "intent of the legislature" that federal "stimulus" money not be incorporated in the funding "base" on which future appropriations for various programs are based, and also that "stimulus" money be allocated in separate line items.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. David Agema (R-74)

To prohibit using State Police budget money to pay the Governor's travel expenses, except for emergencies.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Vincent Gregory (D-35)

To add a $100 "point of difference" between the Senate-passed version in the line item for secondary road patrol grants to counties, which leaves this item open to further negotiation in a House-Senate conference committee.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Barb Byrum (D-67)

To remove a provision requiring the administrative functions and duties of the executive director of the Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards (MCOLES) to be transferred to the department's training division.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Passed in the House 68 to 39 (details)

The House verion of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009-2010 State Police budget. This would appropriate $540.7 million in gross spending, compared to $530.2 million, which was the FY 2008-2009 amount enrolled in 2008. Of this, $267.2 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2008-2009 amount of $284.9 million, and $129.2 million will come from state restricted funds, or earmarked tax and fee revenue, compared to $113.6 million the previous year. $96.5 million is from federal revenue. The House does not include Senate language prohibiting transfer of the MSP headquarters to the downtown Lansing "Triangle Project" building owned by Joel Ferguson and associates. The House also prohibits closing any State Police posts or reducing the number of troopers.

Received in the Senate

Sept. 21, 2009

Failed in the Senate 0 to 36 (details)

To concur with a House-passed version of the bill. The vote sends the bill to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differences.

Sept. 30, 2009

Received

The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009-2010 State Police budget. The report was not accepted on this vote because some senators object to the provision authorizing the purchase for around $70 million of a controversial new State Police headquarters in downtown Lansing owned by prominent Democratic Party contributor Joel Ferguson and Republican contributor Gary Granger.

Failed in the Senate 17 to 17 (details)

Motion to reconsider

To reconsider the vote by which the conference report was not adopted.

The motion failed 17 to 10 (details)

Received in the House

Oct. 1, 2009

Passed in the House 64 to 44 (details)

The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009-2010 State Police budget. This appropriates $527.3 million in gross spending, compared to $530.2 million enrolled the previous year. $101.8 million is from federal revenue. The bill only appropriates one month of rent for a controversial new State Police headquarters in downtown Lansing owned by prominent Democratic Party contributor Joel Ferguson and Republican contributor Gary Granger, and authorizes its purchase for around $70 million.

Received in the Senate

Oct. 1, 2009

Passed in the Senate 27 to 10 (details)

Signed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm

Oct. 29, 2009