Introduced by Sen. Howard Walker R-Traverse City on February 14, 2012
To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 Department of Education budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them. Official Text and Analysis.
Referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee on February 14, 2012
Reported in the Senate on April 24, 2012
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered in the Senate on April 25, 2012
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 program.
The substitute passed by voice vote in the Senate on April 25, 2012
Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood D-Taylor on April 25, 2012
To increase to 90 hours the maximum number of welfare-related "child development and care" service hours provided per recipient.
The Senate version of the Department of Education budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2012. This would appropriate $324.8 million, of which $244.5 million would come from the federal government. Note: This budget contains $156.1 million in welfare-related government programs for school age children previously part of the Department of Human Services budget.
Received in the House on April 25, 2012
Referred to the House Appropriations Committee on April 25, 2012
Substitute offered by Rep. Chuck Moss R-Birmingham on May 2, 2012
Rep. Moss moved to substitute (H-1) the bill.
The motion prevailed.
The substitute passed by voice vote in the House on May 2, 2012
To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations. This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.
The House-Senate conference report for the Department of Education budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2012. This would appropriate $328.9 million, of which $244.5 million would come from the federal government. Note: This budget contains $156.1 million in welfare-related government programs for school age children previously part of the Department of Human Services budget. Note: House Bill 5365 contains an identical version of this conference report.