To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential fiscal year 2021-22 community colleges budget. This bill contains nominal appropriations only, but may be amended at a later date to make real ones.   Official Text and Analysis.

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-4) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

To add $24.3 million divided among the community colleges.

To adopt a version of this budget that reflects Democratic caucus preferences.

The House version of the fiscal year 2020-2021 community colleges budget. This would appropriate $449.9 million in gross spending.

To send the bill back to the House "stripped" of all actual appropriations except $100 “placeholders.” This is part of a process for reconciling the House and Senate-passed department budgets for the next fiscal year.

To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill. The failed vote is a procedural device used for launching negotiations over the differences between the House and Senate budgets, and eventually for negotiating a final budget between a Republican-controlled legislature and a Democratic governor.