Introduced
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To provide a "template" or "place holder" for a Fiscal Year 2004-2005 General Government budget, which funds the Attorney General, Civil Rights Department, Civil Service Department, Executive, Legislature, Department of Management and Budget, Department of State, Department of Information Technology, and Department of Treasury. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.
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
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To allow the Department of Information Technology to carry over unused funds at the end of the year to the next year's budget, rather than requiring the money to be returned to the state general fund.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To reduce the appropriation to the Attorney General to the level recommended by the governor, which is approximately $1.1 million less.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To clarify a technical change in the term for a funding source contained in the bill.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the Department of Treasury to perform an independent efficiency evaluation of the Detroit water and sewerage department, not just an audit.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To strip out a $3.2 million for grants to local governments to hire private firms to audit the "personal property" tax returns of local businesses. The personal property tax is a tax on the tools and equipment that businesses use to provide goods and services.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To incorpoarate into this budget act the "outsourcing" restrictions imposed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm's <a href="http://mi.gov/gov/0,1607,7-168-21975_22515---,00.html ">”Executive Directives”</a> 1 and 2 on firms that contract with the state to provide goods and services to the state, and restrict contracts with an "expatriated business," which is a firm incorporated in a specified "tax haven country," but has the United States as its principle place of business..
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the Department of Treasury to enter a three year contract with a particular credit card company.
The amendment failed 43 to 61 (details)
Amendment offered
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To require the Attoney General to report annually to the legislatute on violations of the "do not call" list established by <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=4762 ">Public Act 612 of 2002</a>.
The amendment failed 41 to 61 (details)
Amendment offered
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To require the Attorney Gneral to give the legislature an annual report that lists the arrests, convictions and arrearages owed and collected through enforcement of the Child Support and Enforcement System.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $7 million for grants to local governments to hire private firms to audit the "personal property" tax returns of local businesses. The personal property tax is a tax on the tools and equipment that businesses use to provide goods and services.
The amendment failed 48 to 56 (details)
Amendment offered
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To require that the grants to local governments to hire private firms to audit the "personal property" tax returns of local businesses, as proposed by the Whitmer amendment, only be used to hire Michigan-based auditors. Grants in the 2003-2004 budget for this purpose went primarily to a South Carolina firm, which reportedly proposed the grant program.
The amendment passed 104 to 0 (details)
Amendment offered
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To strip out $500,000 proposed for an independent audit and efficiency review of the Detroit water and sewer department.
The amendment failed 44 to 61 (details)
Amendment offered
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To add $7 million for grants to local governments to hire private firms to audit the "personal property" tax returns of local businesses, or for the Department of Treasury to undertake the audits. The personal property tax is a tax on the tools and equipment that businesses use to provide goods and services.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Passed in the House 62 to 43 (details)
The House version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004-2005 General Government budget, which funds the Attorney General, Civil Rights Department, Civil Service Department, Executive, Legislature, Department of Management and Budget, Department of State, Department of Information Technology, and Department of Treasury. (Note: Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s proposed budget for this department is <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2003-HB-5608">House Bill 5608</a>.) This appropriates $2.021 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $2.286 billion, which was the FY 2003-2004 amount enrolled in 2003. Of this, $345.2 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2003-2004 amount of $355.1 million. Another $1.622 billion is from “restricted funds,” or earmarked tax and fee revenue. $1.135 billion of this budget is paid out in revenue sharing to local governments. The House version conforms to the governor's proposal to pay revenue sharing to counties out of a fund created by collecting 2004 county property taxes six months earlier, even though that plan appears to be dead (see 2004 Senate Bill 1112). It authorizes approximately $10 million less in adjusted gross spending than the governor recommended. However, the “bottom line” gross spending appears to show $49 million more, due to change in how the House version accounts for the state’s motor vehicle fleet expenses. 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 (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 details. The substitute includes many "points of difference" on particular line items, which means these items may be revised by an eventual House-Senate conference committee.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To prohibit the Secretary of State from closing local branches unless it can be demonstrated in advance that the closing will generate cost savings of at least five percent.
The amendment failed 17 to 21 (details)
Passed in the Senate 21 to 15 (details)
The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004-2005 General Government budget, which funds the Attorney General, Civil Rights Department, Civil Service Department, Executive, Legislature, Department of Management and Budget, Department of State, Department of Information Technology, and Department of Treasury. (Note: Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s proposed budget for this department is <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2003-HB-5608">House Bill 5608</a>.) This appropriates $2.017 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $2.286 billion, which was the FY 2003-2004 amount enrolled in 2003. Of this, $344.6 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2003-2004 amount of $355.1 million. Another $1.618 billion is from “restricted funds,” or earmarked tax and fee revenue. $1.135 billion of this budget is paid out in revenue sharing to local governments. The Senate version authorizes approximately $4 million less in general fund spending than the governor recommended, and $22 million more in adjusted gross spending. 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.
Failed in the House 1 to 98 (details)
To concur with a Senate-passed version of the bill. The vote sends the bill to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differences.
Failed in the House 0 to 101 (details)
The first House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004-2005 General Government budget. This version was rejected because it mistakenly did not include a provision of a verbal agreement between legislative leaders. This would strip out a provision inserted by the Senate prior to the August 2004 elections, threatening a five percent cut to Detroit's revenue sharing payments if the city adopted a citizen initiative legalizing medical marijuana. The initiative passed, but is not expected to have any practical effect, since the state marijuana laws remain on the books. See second conference report for details on the final general government budget.
Received
The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004-2005 General Government budget, which funds the Attorney General, Civil Rights Department, Civil Service Department, Executive, Legislature, Department of Management and Budget, Department of State, Department of Information Technology, and Department of Treasury. This appropriates $2.597 billion in unadjusted gross spending, compared to $2.758 billion, which was the final FY 2003-2004 amount. Of this, $335.0 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the final FY 2003-2004 amount of $338.4 million. Another $1.633 billion is from “restricted funds,” or earmarked tax and fee revenue. $1.144 billion of this budget is paid out in revenue sharing to local governments. The budget recognizes revenue from a plan proposed in <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2004-SB-1112">Senate Bill 1112</a> to move up the county property tax due date from December to July, and authorizes money to hire private auditors to seek out additional unpaid personal property taxes (capital equipment tax) from private companies. It also increases appropritions for the legislature, the governor's office, and the Attorney General's office.
Passed in the House 57 to 40 (details)
Passed in the Senate 26 to 9 (details)
Striking out certain additional appropriations for the Attorney General office.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
