Introduced
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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 <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2003-HB-5507">House Bill 5507 </a>. Much more information on Michigan’s budget is available at <a href=“http://www.mackinac.org/4964”>Hot Topics: Michigan’s Budget Challenge</a> at www.mackinac.org/4964.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
To replace the executive proposal for this budget, contained in <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2004-HB-5607">House Bill 5607 </a>, 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).
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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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.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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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.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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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 amendment failed 48 to 58 (details)
Passed in the House 95 to 11 (details)
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.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
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.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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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.
The amendment failed 18 to 19 (details)
Amendment offered
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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 amendment failed 14 to 22 (details)
Passed in the Senate 24 to 13 (details)
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.
Failed in the House 0 to 103 (details)
Passed in the House 94 to 13 (details)
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.
Passed in the Senate 34 to 0 (details)
