To provide a "template" or "place holder" for a Fiscal Year 2004-2005 Family Independence Agency budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them. Note: Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s proposed budget for this department is House Bill 5507 . Much more information on Michigan’s budget is available at Hot Topics: Michigan’s Budget Challenge at www.mackinac.org/4964.   Official Text and Analysis.

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

To replace the executive proposal for this budget, contained in House Bill 5607 , with a budget that expresses policy differences between the Republican-majority in the House and Governor Jennifer Granholm on certain spending items and funding sources. See House-passed version for major features, and House Fiscal Agency analysis for detailed analysis (the “Text and Analysis” at the top of this bill’s MichiganVotes.org page is a link to this).

To reduce by $2.9 million the funding for the W. J. Maxey training school (state reformatory), contingent on the sale of a portion of the school's property.

To revise a provision requiring the referral of foster care services to new foster children to private nonprofit agencies if the caseload for government foster care workers exceeds a certain level, to require that the private agency’s workers have a lower caseload level.

To reduce by 5-cents an hour the reimbursement rate paid to the family members of welfare recipients for child care they provide to the recipient's children.

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2004-2005 Family Independence Agency budget. This appropriates $4.306 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $3.950 billion, which was the FY 2003-2004 amount enrolled in 2003. Of this, $1.138 billion will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2003-2004 amount of $1.133 million. The House version authorizes approximately $32 million less in gross spending than the governor recommended.

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

To replace the House version of this budget with a Senate version which expresses policy differences between the bodies on certain spending items. See Senate-passed version for detail.

To increase the department's interdepartmental grant to the Department of Information Technology (DIT) for computer services. The Senate departmental budgets contain a seven-percent cut in each department's DIT payments.

To strip out a provision that earmarks a portion of federal domestic violence shelter money directly to a facility in Barry County, rather than requiring that facility to apply for funding through the combined Calhoun-Barry County Family Independence Agency office.

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2004-2005 Family Independence Agency budget. This appropriates $4.305 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $3.950 billion, which was the FY 2003-2004 amount enrolled in 2003. Of this, $1.128 billion will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2003-2004 amount of $1.133 million. The Senate version authorizes approximately $30 million less in gross spending than the governor recommended.

The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004-2005 Family Independence Agency budget. This appropriates $4.291 billion in gross spending, compared to the final FY 2003-2004 amount of $3.950 billion, which is an 8.7 percent increase. Of this, $1.109 billion will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the final FY 2003-2004 amount of $1.101 million. Among other things, the budget adds $126.9 million in federal money to provide food stamps to unmarried adults.