The executive recommendation for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2005-2006 Family Independence Agency budget. This appropriates $4.427 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $4.291 billion, which was the FY 2004-2005 amount enrolled in 2004. Of this, $1.138 billion will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2004-2005 amount of $1.106 billion. 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 (S-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

To replace the executive proposal for this budget with one that expresses policy differences between the Republican-majority in the Senate and Governor Jennifer Granholm on certain spending items and funding sources. For much more detail see analysis from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency”>analysis from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency.

To increase spending by approximately 15 percent on juvenile justice programs.

To require that representatives from faith-based organizations be included on a state task force directed to oversee government programs for "at risk" teenagers and recommend improvements.

To add $5 million for welfare recipient child care subsidies.

The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2005-2006 Department of Social Services budget (formerly the Family Independence Agency). This appropriates $4.373 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $4.291 billion, which was the FY 2004-2005 amount enrolled in 2004. Of this, $1.076 billion will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2004-2005 amount of $1.106 billion.

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

To replace the Senate-passed version of this budget with one that “strips” all actual appropriations. See House-passed version for explanation.

To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations, leaving it in its original form as a "template" or "placeholder." This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budget.

To concur with a House-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) 2005-2006 Department of Social Services budget (welfare budget). This appropriates $4.425 billion in adjusted gross spending, compared to $4.291 billion, which was the FY 2004-2005 amount enrolled in 2004. Of this, $1.081 billion will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2004-2005 amount of $1.106 billion. This final version of the budget does not include a House-passed provision to reduce the maximum lifetime welfare eligibility period to four years, which would have removed 10,600 from the state welfare rolls. It also prohibits the department from refusing to award certain contracts to the lowest bidder because the lowest bidder does not have a unionized work force.