To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2009-2010 General Government 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 that contains actual appropriations. For details see analysis from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency.

To add $17.5 million to the “21st Century Jobs Fund” business subsidy program.

To spend an additional $56 million on revenue sharing.

To add a $100 "placeholder" to allow negotiations to proceed on retaining 10 employees there pending decisions on if and how to divest the state of the State Fair property in Detroit, which Gov. Granholm has proposed no longer funding.

To prohibit the Attorney General from agreeing to a lawsuit or administrative enforcement settlement against a business or individual in which the money or goods are transferred to a third party, rather than being paid to the state. Instead, any transfer would have to come only after an appropriation was passed by the legislature. This would not apply to settlements involving disbursements directly to consumer members of a class action lawsuit brought by the Attorney General. Also to require the AG to file reports to the legislature disclosing details of all lawsuit settlements it enters into.

To require the Attorney General to annually report to the legislature the names and addresses of the special attorneys general it used the preceding fiscal year.

To require the Attorney General to annually report to the legislature and post on the internet the number of complaints received, investigated, and the number of violations prosecuted involving the Michigan occupational safety and health act (MIOSHA).

To require the Attorney General to annually report to the legislature and post on the internet the number of complaints received, investigated, and the number of court actions filed involving the state Item Pricing law.

To revise details of a proposed reduction proposed for the legislature's budget (which would take it from $110.9 appropriated for the current year to $105.0 million in FT 2009-2010).

The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009-2010 General Government budget, which funds the Attorney General, Civil Rights Department, Civil Service Department, Executive, Legislature, Department of Management and Budget, Department of State, Department of Information Technology, and Department of Treasury. This would appropriate $2.976 billion in gross spending, compared to $3.158 billion, which was the FY 2008-2009 amount enrolled in 2008. Of this, $637.6 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2008-2009 amount of $668.1 million. Another $1.596 billion is from "restricted funds," or earmarked tax and fee revenue, compared to $1.709 billion the previous year. $986.3 million of this budget is paid out in revenue sharing to local governments, compared to $1.085 billion the previous year.

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-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 Democratic-majority in the House on various spending items and programs. For details see analysis from the non-partisan House Fiscal Agency">analysis from the non-partisan House Fiscal Agency.

To add $978,000 for the legislative auditor general.

To strip out a provision prohibiting the Attorney General from agreeing to a lawsuit or administrative enforcement settlement against a business or individual in which the money or goods are transferred to a third party, rather than being paid to the state. Instead, any transfer would have to come only after an appropriation was passed by the legislature. Also to require the AG to file reports to the legislature disclosing details of all lawsuit settlements it enters into; the names and addresses of the special attorneys general it used the preceding fiscal year; and the number of complaints received, investigated, and the number of violations prosecuted involving the Michigan occupational safety and health act (MIOSHA) and the state Item Pricing law (these last two would also have to be posted on the Internet).

To reduce the number of employees in the lottery bureau from 181 to 171.

To prohibit deducting money from government employee paychecks for union political action committees (PACs).

To require the department to post on the internet a listing of all expenditures, with the purpose of each (a "check register"), and also that federal "stimulus" money be posted online as separate line items.

To require the Department of Information Technology to commission an independent study to identify which IT functions could be privatized and how much this would save.

To require the Secretary of State to pay for its operations as much as possible with fee and license revenue, rather than general fund revenue (from state taxes).

To require the Secretary of State to report to the legislature its response to a recent Auditor General report on its operations.

To strip out a $250,000 grant to a "Motown museum".

To require the department to send reports to the legislature every other month detailing the number of employees on its payroll.

The House version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009-2010 General Government budget, which funds the Attorney General, Civil Rights Department, Civil Service Department, Executive, Legislature, Department of Management and Budget, Department of State, Department of Information Technology, and Department of Treasury. This would appropriate $3.081 billion in gross spending, compared to $3.158 billion, which was the FY 2008-2009 amount enrolled in 2008. Of this, $650.3 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2008-2009 amount of $668.1 million. Another $1.672 billion is from "restricted funds," or earmarked tax and fee revenue, compared to $1.709 billion the previous year. $986. $1.069 bllion of this budget is paid out in revenue sharing to local governments, compared to $1.085 billion the previous year.

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.

The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009-2010 General Government budget, which funds several departments, the Executive office, the Legislature, and revenue sharing. This would appropriate $3.006 billion in gross spending, compared to $3.158 billion, which was the FY 2008-2009 amount enrolled in 2008. $116.9 million of the total is federal money. $991.6 million of this budget is paid out in revenue sharing to local governments, 11.1 percent less than the previous year.