To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 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 of this budget that expresses the fiscal and policy preferences of the Republican-majority in the Senate on various spending items and programs.

The Senate version of the State Police budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2012. This would appropriate $572.9 million in gross spending, compared to $525.0 million the previous year. Of this, $104.9 million is from federal revenue.

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.

The House-Senate conference report for the State Police budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2012. This would appropriate $577.9 million in gross spending, compared to $525.0 million the previous year. Of this, $104.9 million is from federal revenue.