2011 Senate Bill 176

Appropriations: 2011-2012 Department of Environmental Quality

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 22, 2011

Introduced by Sen. Michael Green (R-31)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 Department of Environmental Quality budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 27, 2011

Reported without amendment

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

Substitute offered

To adopt a version of this budget that expresses the fiscal and policy preferences of the Republican-majority in the Senate on various spending items and programs. For details see <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2011-2012/billanalysis/Senate/pdf/2011-SFA-0176-F.pdf">analysis</a> from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 21 to 17 (details)

The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2011-2012 Department of Environmental Quality budget. This would appropriate $405.7 million in gross spending, compared to $395.6 million the previous year. Of this, $21.4 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues). Another $214.7 million comes from other state sources including permit fees, fines, borrowing (“bond sales”), etc. $159.7 million would come from the federal government.

Received in the House

April 28, 2011

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 12, 2011

Substitute offered

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 62 to 46 (details)

To "adopt" a version of this budget, but in fact replace all the appropriations with $100 "placeholders." This is essentially a means for sending the budget to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differences.

Received in the Senate

May 12, 2011

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.

Failed in the Senate 0 to 38 (details)

May 25, 2011

Received

Passed in the Senate 22 to 15 (details)

The final House-Senate conference report for the 2011-2012 Department of Environmental Quality budget. This would appropriate $414.5 million in gross spending, compared to $395.6 million the previous year. Of this, $21.4 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues). Another $223.5 million comes from other state sources including permit fees, fines, borrowing (“bond sales”), etc. $159.7 million would come from the federal government.

Received in the House

May 25, 2011