2022 House Bill 5784

Appropriations: Department of Health and Human Services

Introduced in the House

Feb. 23, 2022

Introduced by Rep. Mary Whiteford (R-80)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Department of Human Services budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 28, 2022

Reported without amendment

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

May 4, 2022

Amendment offered by Rep. Sue Allor (R-106)

To direct $5 million to a particular hospital for an "adolescent partial hospitalization program".

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Amos O’Neal (D-95)

To increase spending in a number of social welfare programs funded by the bill.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Rachel Hood (D-76)

To spend an additional $3 million on lead abatement in homes in Kent County.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Felicia Brabec (D-55)

To increase spending in a number of mental and "behavioral" health programs funded by the bill.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Helena Scott (D-7)

To revise spending amounts in a number of line items, remove a requirement to notify medical care providers that the state health and welfare department does not pay for elective abortions, abortion referrals, pregnancy and parenting support programs, and more.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Brenda Carter (D-29)

To add $20 million in spending to "eliminate health disparities," $10 million for a "violence prevention study," and smaller amounts for other some other programs.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Felicia Brabec (D-55)

To add spending in a number of areas, including grants for social workers.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Laurie Pohutsky (D-19)

To tie-bar the bill to House Bill 5542, meaning this bill cannot become law unless that one does also. HB 5542 would repeal the 1931 law that banned abortion in Michigan, and provisions in other statutes restricting abortions.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Thomas Albert (R-86)

To make some of the spending authorized by the bill contingent on passage of House Bill 6011, which would pull the required state license from a medical provider that performs an abortion if the state adopts an abortion ban.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 55 to 48 (details)

The House version of the Department of Health and Human Services budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2022. This covers welfare and Medicaid spending and is by far the state's largest annual appropriation. The bill would authorize $33.929 billion in gross spending, of which $22.370 billion is federal money.

Received in the Senate

May 5, 2022

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 11, 2022

Passed in the Senate 22 to 11 (details)

To send the bill back to the House stripped of all actual appropriations except for $100 “placeholders," as part of a process to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

Received in the House

May 11, 2022

May 19, 2022

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations