Introduced
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To provide the “template” or “place holder” for a Fiscal Year 2008-2009 Department of Education budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them. Gov. Granholm’s recommendation recommendation for this budget is <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-51147">Senate Bill 1147</a>..
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 adopt a version of this budget that expresses the fiscal and policy preferences of the Republican-majority in the Senate on various spending items and programs. See Senate-passed version for more, and for details see <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/billanalysis/Senate/htm/2007-SFA-1096-U.htm">analysis</a> from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 36 to 1 (details)
The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2008-2009 Department of Education budget. This would appropriate $94.5 million in gross spending, compared to $96.4 million, which was the FY 2007-2008 amount enrolled in 2007, and $94.7 million in Gov. Granholm’s recommendation, <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-51147">Senate Bill 1147</a>. Of this, $7.87 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2007-2008 amount of $7.08 million. Another $6.980 million comes from state “restricted fund” revenue that is generated by various fees and other levies, and the balance ($68.7 million) is federal money.
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 Senate version of this budget with one that expresses the preferences of the House majority on various spending items and funding sources. For more see details see the <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/billanalysis/House/pdf/2007-HLA-1096-4.pdf">analysis</a> from the non-partisan House Fiscal Agency.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the Department of Education to post a user-friendly website showing all its expenditures and the purpose of each. Note: Although passed, the amendment was not included in a subsequent substitute version of the bill that was adopted.
The amendment passed 84 to 24 (details)
Amendment offered
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To establish as the "intent of the legislature" that the state superintendent of public instruction shall close any school with a graduation rate less than 30 percent.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To impose a 5 percent across-the-board cut in the amount proposed for this department's budget, with the department to figure out what specifically to reduce below the previously proposed spending level.
The amendment failed 50 to 58 (details)
Amendment offered
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To insert a $100 "placeholder" authorizing a comprehensive school reform and finance study, with the actual amount to be worked out and negotiated as this budget moves through the process.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $50,000 for extra staff in a school finance and school law operations division.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Substitute offered
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To adopt a substitute version of the bill that is essentially identical to the original substitute before it was amended, as a means to sweep away a a Republican amendment requiring the department of Education to post all its expenditures and their purpose on a website. This allows the amendment to be indirectly defeated without requiring "vulnerable" Democrats to cast "no" votes on it that might be used against them in a political campaign.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 58 to 49 (details)
The House version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2008-2009 Department of Education budget. This would appropriate $95.7 million in gross spending, compared to $96.4 million, which was the FY 2007-2008 amount enrolled in 2007, and $94.7 million in Gov. Granholm’s recommendation, <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-51147">Senate Bill 1147</a>. Of this, $8.1 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2007-2008 amount of $7.08 million. Another $6.980 million comes from state “restricted fund” revenue that is generated by various fees and other levies, and the balance ($70.5 million) is federal money.
Failed in the Senate 0 to 38 (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.
Passed in the House 86 to 21 (details)
The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year 2008-2009 Department of Education budget. This would appropriate $95.1 million in gross spending, compared to $96.4 million, which was the FY 2007-2008 amount enrolled in 2007, and $94.7 million in Gov. Granholm’s recommendation, <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-51147">Senate Bill 1147</a>. Of this, $7.5 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2007-2008 amount of $7.08 million. Another $6.980 million comes from state “restricted fund” revenue that is generated by various fees and other levies, and most of the balance ($70.6 million) is federal money. For budget details see House Fiscal Agency <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/billanalysis/House/pdf/2007-HLA-1096-8.pdf">analysis</a>.
Passed in the Senate 35 to 2 (details)
