2014 Senate Bill 776

Appropriations: State Police

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 11, 2014

Introduced by Sen. Patrick Colbeck (R-7)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2014-2015 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 29, 2014

Reported without amendment

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

Substitute offered

The substitute passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Coleman Young (D-1)

To cut $500,000 for additional state Capitol security, funding that reportedly was added after disorderly 2012 protests over passage of a Right to Work law.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 38 to 0 (details)

The Senate version of the State Police budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2014. This would appropriate $638.5 million in gross spending (of which $99.4 million is federal revenue), compared to $606.8 million the previous year (an amount that included $16 million for police radios and which is now included in a different budget).

Received in the House

April 29, 2014

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 14, 2014

Substitute offered by Rep. Joseph Haveman (R-90)

To adopt a version of the budget that contains no appropriations, but is instead intended to launch negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 108 to 0 (details)

To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations. This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

Received in the Senate

May 20, 2014

Failed in the Senate 0 to 37 (details)

June 12, 2014

Received

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations