2013 Senate Bill 608 / 2014 Public Act 34

Authorize additional state spending, projects, debt, and Medicaid expansion fund source shifts

Introduced in the Senate

Oct. 9, 2013

Introduced by Sen. Roger Kahn (R-32)

To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential supplemental appropriation for Fiscal Year 2013-2014. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

Feb. 20, 2014

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-3) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

Substitute offered

The substitute passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood (D-8)

To strip out $5.5 million for a "public/private partnership, Pyramid P20 education hub" project located in a former Steelcase building that <a href="http://mibiz.com/news/design-build/item/20172-steelcase%E2%80%99s-pyramid-hits-market-at-clearance-price">appears to have become</a> a real estate market "white elephant".

The amendment failed 14 to 24 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Vincent Gregory (D-14)

To add $2 million for a veterans program.

The amendment passed by voice vote

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

To strip out $300,000 for a Secretary of State online services marketing project.

The amendment failed 12 to 26 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Rebekah Warren (D-18)

To require "veterans affairs agency county veteran counselors, veteran services officers, and other service providers" to "incorporate mental health care referral services into their daily operations".

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 32 to 6 (details)

To adjust spending in the current year budget to reflect fund source changes triggered by adoption of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion starting in April, and authorize additional spending on roads (including $100 million for extra winter maintenance costs), government preschool programs, “land bank" authorities, low income heating bill subsidies, National Guard armory improvements, veterans programs, harbor dredging projects, and much more. The bill would also authorize $60.3 million in new debt for state college and university construction projects. For more details see a <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2013-2014/billanalysis/Senate/htm/2013-SFA-0608-B.htm">summary</a> prepared by the Senate Fiscal Agency.

Received in the House

Feb. 20, 2014

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

Feb. 27, 2014

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

March 4, 2014

Substitute offered

The substitute failed by voice vote

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

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. Among other things it directs more money to road projects.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Sam Singh (D-69)

To add another $50 million for extra winter road maintenance costs.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Andy Schor (D-68)

To add $2 million in subsidies for expenses incurred by mid-Michigan communities due to a December 2013 ice storm.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Adam Zemke (D-55)

To add $2 million in transportation spending related to a particular commercial project.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Fred Durhal (D-5)

To add $19.9 million for an infant mortality prevention project at a particular hospital.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Thomas Stallworth (D-7)

To give $250,000 to "a nonprofit agency that has an established program to provide entrepreneurial skills development to urban youths" in Detroit.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-6)

To authorize new debt for a Waterford fire department project.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Mike Shirkey (R-65)

To prohibit the extra winter road maintenance money from being used by local road departments to cover administrative, overhead, and other indirect costs.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Ed McBroom (R-108)

To spend $4 million on heating bill subsidies for LP gas customers.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Tom McMillin (R-45)

To revise the allocation of the extra winter road maintenance money, distributing a larger share to communities with higher population densities (and less to ones with more road miles per capita).

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Margaret O’Brien (R-61)

To authorize extra spending in an amount to be determined later for welfare-related "family, maternal, and children’s health services".

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-6)

To revise fund sources in the Medicaid expansion.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Passed in the House 65 to 44 (details)

To adjust spending in the current year budget to reflect fund source changes triggered by adoption of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion starting in April. The bill also appropriates $215 million in additional spending on roads (including $100 million for extra winter maintenance costs), plus money for Amtrak-related rail improvements, government preschool programs, low income heating bill subsidies, veterans programs, marina projects, and much more. The House removed a Senate-passed $5.5 million appropriation involving purchase of the Steelcase "Pyramid" building for a loosely defined, education-related "public/private partnership," along with other spending including extra money for "land banks." The bill would also authorize $60.3 million in new debt for state college and university construction projects. For more details see a <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2013-2014/billanalysis/House/pdf/2013-HLA-0608-6689BB3F.pdf">summary</a> prepared by the House Fiscal Agency.

Received in the Senate

March 5, 2014

Failed in the Senate 0 to 36 (details)

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

March 6, 2014

Received

March 12, 2014

Passed in the Senate 30 to 5 (details)

To adopt a compromise version of the bill reported by a House-Senate conference committee. This appropriates $215 million in additional spending on roads (including $100 million for extra winter maintenance costs), plus extra money for a variety of other government programs. It authorizes but does not fund a project involving purchase of the Steelcase "Pyramid" building for a loosely defined, education-related "public/private partnership." The bill also authorizes $60.3 million in new debt for state college and university construction projects. Finally, it adjusts spending in the current year budget to reflect fund source changes triggered by adoption of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion starting in April. For more details see a <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2013-2014/billanalysis/House/pdf/2013-HLA-0608-96ECBB67.pdf">summary</a> prepared by the House Fiscal Agency.

Received in the House

March 12, 2014

Passed in the House 106 to 2 (details)

Signed by Gov. Rick Snyder

March 14, 2014