2018 House Bill 5578

Appropriations: “Omnibus” budget

Introduced in the House

Feb. 14, 2018

Introduced by Rep. Laura Cox (R-19)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for a Fiscal Year 2018-2019 “Omnibus” budget funding all state departments. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 19, 2018

Reported without amendment

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

April 24, 2018

Amendment offered by Rep. Fred Durhal (D-5)

To reallocate some federal road tax dollars to local and county road agencies.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Yousef Rabhi (D-53)

To spend $8 million to deliver bottled water to Flint residents.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Fred Durhal (D-5)

To increase state revenue sharing payments to counties, and increase "supplemental" revenue sharing payments to certain cities, villages and townships.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Steven Johnson (R-72)

To ban state agencies from allocating any funds to a hospital or other entity that performs more than 120 elective abortions per year.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Sylvia Santana (D-9)

To increase state spending on welfare-related preschool programs, raise the eligibility income cap for certain of these programs, and revise the allocation of funding to full-day and half-day programs.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Yousef Rabhi (D-53)

To increase spending on various state environmental programs and enforcement activities.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. David LaGrand (D-75)

To require the state Attorney General department to make additional disclosures regarding spending and hiring practices that are generally aimed at detecting partisan influence in hiring and other decisions.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Sheldon Neeley (D-34)

To spend more on giving bottled water and water filters to Flint residents.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Darrin Camilleri (D-23)

To reallocate $13 million transportation dollars to rail overpass projects.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Phil Phelps (D-49)

To give $2 million to a certain city identified by current population to buy police and fire equipment.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Phil Phelps (D-49)

To spend $375,000 on a Flint surface water study.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Yousef Rabhi (D-53)

To spend more on environmental cleanups and hire more people for this.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Scott Dianda (D-110)

To give an extra $711,400 to a particular organization contracted by a small county identified only by population to provide job training and career planning programs.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Rob VerHeulen (R-74)

To increase spending on a program that delivers direct and indirect subsidies to new businesses.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Larry Inman (R-104)

To increase the amount proposed for tourism marketing spending (the "Pure Michigan" program) by $2.5 million, from $32.5 million to $35 million.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Daire Rendon (R-103)

To restrict spending money on family planning or reproductive health services where the local or state agency contracts with an entity that provides abortions or abortion referrals.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. John Bizon (R-62)

To allocate $2.5 million to a county veteran services fund.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Laura Cox (R-19)

To eliminate funding for a "Michigan community service commission".

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Henry Yanez (D-25)

To add $2.5 million for Medicaid mental health programs.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Passed in the House 66 to 41 (details)

The House version of an “omnibus” non-education state government budget for the fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1, 2018. This would appropriate $39.792 billion, compared to $38.786 billion authorized the year before. Of this amount, $19.629 billion is federal money, and $20.163 billion comes from state taxpayers. The House education budget (including K-12, community colleges and state universities) is in House Bill 5579 and proposes spending another $16.881 billion.<br> All told, the House proposes spending $56.673 billion next year, vs. $53.667 billion originally approved for the current year.

Received in the Senate

April 26, 2018

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

June 12, 2018

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations