2013 Senate Bill 184

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Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 13, 2013

Introduced by Sen. John Pappageorge (R-13)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2013-2014 Department of Transportation budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 25, 2013

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S­1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

April 30, 2013

Substitute offered

The substitute passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Bert Johnson (D-2)

To increase subsidies to local mass transportation (bus) agencies, including an extra $7 million for new Detroit buses and maintenance.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Glenn Anderson (D-6)

To require the department to submit a report on its spending for planning associated with local governments.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 26 to 11 (details)

The Senate version of the Transportation budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2013. This would appropriate $3.493 billion in gross spending, compared to $3.466 billion in the current fiscal year. Of this, $1.198 billion is federal money, and the rest is mostly from state motor fuel tax and vehicle registration tax revenue. The budget does not include spending requested by the Governor from $1.2 billion in higher transportation taxes he has recommended.

Received in the House

May 1, 2013

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 14, 2013

Substitute offered by Rep. Joseph Haveman (R-90)

To adopt a version of the budget that contains no appropriations, but is instead intended to launch negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

The substitute passed by voice vote

May 15, 2013

Passed in the House 60 to 48 (details)

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.

Received in the Senate

May 16, 2013

Failed in the Senate 0 to 38 (details)

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.

June 5, 2013

Received

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations