To provide a "template" or "place holder" for a Fiscal Year 2004-2005 Department of History, Arts and Libraries budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.   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 5609, 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 increase funding for the Detroit and Grand Rapids Public Libraries.

To speed up a gradual reduction of the 19 percent of the state's art and cultural spending that goes to the Detroit Institute of Arts, evenutually capping it at 15 percent.

To cut a $1.5 million provision to digitalize unique books in Michigan libraries.

The Kooiman amendment to speed up a reduction of the percentage of the state's art and cultural spending going to the Detroit Institute of Arts.

To speed up a gradual reduction of the 19 percent of the state's art and cultural spending that goes to the Detroit Institute of Arts, evenutually capping it at 15 percent.

The House version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004-2005 Department of History, Arts and Libraries budget. (Note: Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s proposed budget for this department is House Bill 5609 .) This appropriates $58.6 million in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $56.9 million, which was the FY 2003-2004 amount enrolled in 2003. Of this, $47.4 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2003-2004 amount of $44.7 million. The House version authorizes the same level of spending that the governor recommended. Much more information on Michigan’s budget is available at Hot Topics: Michigan’s Budget Challenge at www.mackinac.org/4964.

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 details.

To elimimate a provision requiring the state arts council to give the legislature 10 days notice before redistributing any unexpended or unencumbered money late in the fiscal year to discretionary arts and cultural grants.

To shift $1 million of library funding to the Detroit library, and $125,000 to the Grand Rapids library.

To increase funding by $1.5 million for a project to digitalize certain unique books in Michigan libraries.

The Senate version of the Fiscal Year FY 2004-2005 Department of History, Arts and Libraries budget. (Note: Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s proposed budget for this department is House Bill 5609 .) This appropriates $57 million in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $56.9 million, which was the FY 2003-2004 amount enrolled in 2003. Of this, $47.4 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2003-2004 amount of $44.7 million. The Senate version authorizes $1.6 million less spending than the governor recommended. Much more information on Michigan’s budget is available at Hot Topics: Michigan’s Budget Challenge at www.mackinac.org/4964.

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.

The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004-2005 Department of History, Arts and Libraries budget. This appropriates $57.0 million in unadjusted gross spending, compared to final the FY 2003-2004 amount of $56.5 million. Of this, $45.8 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the final FY 2003-2004 amount of $44.2 million. Among many other things, the budget includes $965,000 for a new digitized historical records project, but does not include $1.125 million in extra funding for the Detroit and Grand Rapids libraries. Arts grants are unchanged from the previous year at $12.4 million.