To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2009-2010 State Police 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 (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

To adopt a version that contains actual appropriations. For details see analysis from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency. This was amended to prohibit money being used to pay a $3.7 million annual lease on a controversial new State Police headquarters building developed by Democratic political activist Joel Ferguson, which is supposed to replace a building the State Police gets for $1 per year from Michigan State University.

To add money for a State Police crime lab in Marquette.

To require the State Police to provide "last resort" law enforcement services to communities that don't provide for their own policing, and to report to the legislature on how much this costs.

To strip out a provision prohibiting money from being used to pay a $3.7 million annual lease on a controversial new State Police headquarters building developed by Democratic political activist Joel Ferguson, which is supposed to replace a building the State Police gets for $1 per year from Michigan State University.

To require the State Police to provide "last resort" law enforcement services to communities that don't provide for their own policing.

The Senate verion of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009-2010 State Police budget. This would appropriate $540.7 million in gross spending, compared to $530.2 million, which was the FY 2008-2009 amount enrolled in 2008. Of this, $267.2 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2008-2009 amount of $284.9 million, and $130.6 million will come from state restricted funds, or earmarked tax and fee revenue, compared to $113.6 million the previous year. $101.8 million is from federal revenue.

To adopt a version of this budget that expresses the fiscal and policy preferences of the Democratic-majority in the House on various spending items and programs. For details see analysis from the non-partisan House Fiscal Agency.

To require the department to post on on the internet a listing of all expenditures, including federal "stimulus" money, with the purpose of each (a "check register").

To establish as the "intent of the legislature" that federal "stimulus" money not be incorporated in the funding "base" on which future appropriations for various programs are based, and also that "stimulus" money be allocated in separate line items.

To prohibit using State Police budget money to pay the Governor's travel expenses, except for emergencies.

To add a $100 "point of difference" between the Senate-passed version in the line item for secondary road patrol grants to counties, which leaves this item open to further negotiation in a House-Senate conference committee.

To remove a provision requiring the administrative functions and duties of the executive director of the Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards (MCOLES) to be transferred to the department's training division.

The House verion of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009-2010 State Police budget. This would appropriate $540.7 million in gross spending, compared to $530.2 million, which was the FY 2008-2009 amount enrolled in 2008. Of this, $267.2 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2008-2009 amount of $284.9 million, and $129.2 million will come from state restricted funds, or earmarked tax and fee revenue, compared to $113.6 million the previous year. $96.5 million is from federal revenue. The House does not include Senate language prohibiting transfer of the MSP headquarters to the downtown Lansing "Triangle Project" building owned by Joel Ferguson and associates. The House also prohibits closing any State Police posts or reducing the number of troopers.

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) 2009-2010 State Police budget. The report was not accepted on this vote because some senators object to the provision authorizing the purchase for around $70 million of a controversial new State Police headquarters in downtown Lansing owned by prominent Democratic Party contributor Joel Ferguson and Republican contributor Gary Granger.

To reconsider the vote by which the conference report was not adopted.

The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009-2010 State Police budget. This appropriates $527.3 million in gross spending, compared to $530.2 million enrolled the previous year. $101.8 million is from federal revenue. The bill only appropriates one month of rent for a controversial new State Police headquarters in downtown Lansing owned by prominent Democratic Party contributor Joel Ferguson and Republican contributor Gary Granger, and authorizes its purchase for around $70 million.