2019 Senate Bill 151 / 2020 Public Act 66

Appropriations: Supplemental budget

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 28, 2019

Introduced by Sen. Jim Stamas (R-36)

To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential supplemental appropriation for Fiscal Year 2019-20. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

Aug. 29, 2019

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the bill pass.

Passed in the Senate 22 to 16 (details)

To send the bill to the House as just a "shell" or "placeholder" budget with no actual appropriations. This 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.

Received in the House

Aug. 29, 2019

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

March 10, 2020

Substitute offered

To adopt a version of the bill that contains actual appropriations.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 99 to 6 (details)

To appropriate $312.3 million in additional spending in the 2019-20 state budget, of which $47.6 million is federal money. The bill appropriates $50.0 million state dollars for coronavirus response measures, and authorizes spending another $50 million federal dollars on this. Among other items are $16 million state dollars for tourism marketing subsidies the legislature declined to fund in the original budget they passed in September; a $500,000 indirect traffic control subsidy for the owners of the Michigan International Speedway; $37 million for local government "enhancement grants" mostly funding various local amenities; $35 million for Gov. Whitmer's "Going Pro" job training program for adults, and more. The bill also pays for several lawsuit judgements that came in against the state.

Received in the Senate

March 11, 2020

March 12, 2020

Passed in the Senate 36 to 2 (details)

Received in the House

March 12, 2020

Passed in the House 101 to 6 (details)

To concur with technical changes in the Senate-passed version of the bill.

Signed with line-item veto by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

March 30, 2020

Received in the Senate

May 7, 2020

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations