2005 Senate Bill 271 / Public Act 147

Appropriations: 2005-2006 Welfare budget

Introduced in the Senate

March 2, 2005

Introduced by Sen. Martha G. Scott (D-2)

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 <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

June 14, 2005

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

June 15, 2005

Substitute offered

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 <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/billanalysis/senate/pdf/2005-SFA-0271-F.pdf">analysis</a> from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency”>analysis</a> from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Martha G. Scott (D-2)

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

The amendment failed 17 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Bill Hardiman (R-29)

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.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Liz Brater (D-18)

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

The amendment failed 18 to 20 (details)

Passed in the Senate 24 to 14 (details)

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.

Received in the House

June 16, 2005

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

June 28, 2005

Reported without amendment

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

Substitute offered

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

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 102 to 0 (details)

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.

Received in the Senate

June 29, 2005

June 30, 2005

Failed in the Senate 0 to 36 (details)

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.

Sept. 13, 2005

Received

Received in the House

Sept. 13, 2005

In the Senate

Sept. 20, 2005

Passed in the Senate 38 to 0 (details)

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.

In the House

Sept. 21, 2005

Passed in the House 105 to 1 (details)

Signed with line-item veto by Gov. Jennifer Granholm

Sept. 28, 2005