To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential “omnibus” budget bill making appropriations for all or most state departments and programs for Fiscal Year 2011-2012.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.

A committee substitute with actual appropriations. This was defeated in favor a further substitute with minor changes from the committee version.

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

To spend slightly less on senior nutrition programs.

To declare as "the intent of the legislature" that the stare work with St. Clair County to investigate higher than normal cancer rates there.

To "encourage" prison food service contractors to use food that is "grown or produced locally".

To earmark 85 percent of selective corporate subsidies the bill proposes to "brownfield" and "historic preservation" incentives. The House approved Gov. Snyder’s plan to replace selective corporate tax breaks and subsidies with fewer handouts totalling $75 million (including “Pure Michigan” tourism industry subsidies).

To require the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to submit a report to the legislature on the airplanes used to for wildfire suppression.

To transfer $20 million from road and bridge construction programs to city bus operating and purchasing subsidies.

To require the state Attorney General to represent the legislature in any civil lawsuit, and to defend legislators in any lawsuit arising out of the their official duties.

To cut spending on the legislature by $2 million.

The House version of the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 state government budget. A separate House budget authorizes school, college and university spending (House Bill 4325). This one would appropriate $32.522 billion in gross spending for everything else, compared to $32.778 the previous year and $32.775 billion recommended by Gov. Rick Snyder. Approximately, $17.31 billion of this budget is federal money, leaving $15.21 billion raised from Michigan sources, compared to $14.48 billion the previous year.

Highlights include: Welfare and Medicaid spending total $20.78 billion (compared to $21.07 billion the previous year), $6.4 billion of which comes from state taxpayers, with the rest federal money. The House imposes higher welfare recipient work requirements, and eliminates some benefits such as clothing subsidies. It concurs with Gov. Snyder’s $250 million cut in state revenue sharing to local governments ($200 milllion of which will be given back to ones that adopt employee benefit and other reforms), and his plan to stop using the tax code to provide selective corporate tax breaks and subsidies, and instead directly appropriate subsidies totalling $75 million (including “Pure Michigan” tourism industry subsidies). Prison spending is $1.84 billion, vs. $2.01 billion the previous year (in part due to fewer prisoners).

To replace the House-passed version of the bill with one that replaces all the appropriations with $100 "placeholders," which is a means of advancing the budget to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differences.

To "adopt" a version of the House Fiscal Year 2011-2012 "omnibus" budget for all state departments, but in fact replace all the appropriations with $100 "placeholders." This is essentially a means for sending the budget to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differences. The Senate-passed versions of these budgets are shown here.

To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill. The vote sends the bill to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differences.

The final House-Senate agreement on the 2011-2012 state government budget. A separate budget authorizes school, college and university spending (House Bill 4325). This one would appropriate $33.14 billion in gross spending for everything else, compared to $32.77 the previous year. Approximately $17.52 billion of this budget is federal money, leaving $15.63 billion raised from Michigan sources, compared to $14.48 billion the previous year.

Highlights include: Welfare, Medicaid and other social welfare spending total $21.13 billion (compared to $21.07 billion the previous year), $6.5 billion of which comes from state taxpayers, with the rest federal money. Some welfare benefits are trimmed, such as clothing subsidies. There is a $250 million cut in state revenue sharing to local governments, but $200 milllion is given back to locals that adopt employee benefit and other reforms. Rather than using the tax code to provide selective corporate tax breaks and subsidies, the budget instead appropriates subsidies of around $100 million (including “Pure Michigan” tourism industry subsidies). Prison spending is $1.94 billion, vs. $2.01 billion the previous year, and a small “boot camp” type alternative corrections facility would be privatized, but no regular prisons.