2014 Senate Bill 777

Appropriations: Department of Transportation

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 11, 2014

Introduced by Sen. John Pappageorge (R-13)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2014-2015 Department of Transportation 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.

May 6, 2014

Substitute offered

The substitute passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Glenn Anderson (D-6)

To remove language prohibiting the Department of Transportation from entering any contract or obligating the state to any spending on a proposed new Detroit River bridge unless it is explicitly authorized by the legislature.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood (D-8)

To require the department to submit a report on the impact of truck weight limits on roads.

The amendment failed 14 to 24 (details)

Passed in the Senate 27 to 11 (details)

The Senate version of the Transportation budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2014. This would appropriate $3.682 billion in gross spending, compared to $3.597 billion originally appropriated for the previous fiscal year (which doesn't include extra spending authorized later). Of this, $1.205 billion is federal money, and the rest is mostly from state motor fuel tax and vehicle registration tax revenue.

Received in the House

May 6, 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