To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 Department Of Natural Resources 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 of this budget that expresses the fiscal and policy preferences of the Republican-majority in the Senate.

To spend $5 million on a government jobs program for young people in Flint, Saginaw, Pontiac, and Detroit.

To require the department to stock more walleye in specific lakes.

The Senate version of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2012. This would appropriate $334.3 million in gross spending, compared to $334.1 million, which was the FY 2011-2012 amount enrolled in 2009. Of this, $66.6 million is federal money, and the rest is from state taxes, fees, fines, royalties, etc.

To strip out all of the appropriations of the Senate-passed version of the bill, which is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

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.

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