2021 Senate Bill 89

Appropriations: 2021-2022 State Police budget

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 2, 2021

Introduced by Sen. Tom Barrett (R-24)

To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential State Police budget for the 2021-2022 fiscal year. This bill contains nominal appropriations only, but may be amended at a later date to include real ones.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 11, 2021

Reported without amendment

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

May 12, 2021

Amendment offered

To authorize spending on the indirect subsidy to the Michigan International Speedway of providing State Police traffic control. The amendment adds a $100 line-item as a "placeholder" for this privilege, which has been extended to the race track's owners in a number of previous budgets.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Sylvia Santana (D-3)

To use money appropriated for a joint task force on jail and pretrial incarceration" to "support the development and delivery of training for law enforcement, dispatch, and jail officers in the areas of behavioral health and victim services".

The amendment failed 16 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Stephanie Chang (D-1)

To add $250,000 for a police "de-escalation pilot project".

The amendment failed 16 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Adam Hollier (D-2)

To increase spending and staff at a criminal justice information center.

The amendment failed 16 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Adam Hollier (D-2)

To increase spending and staff in an "emergency management and homeland security" line item.

The amendment failed 16 to 20 (details)

Passed in the Senate 20 to 16 (details)

The Senate version of the fiscal year 2021-22 State Police budget. This would appropriate $760.7 million in gross spending. Of this, $80.9 million is federal money, and the rest is from state and local taxes and fees.

Received in the House

May 13, 2021

May 19, 2021

Substitute offered by Rep. Thomas Albert (R-86)

The substitute passed by voice vote

May 20, 2021

Passed in the House 107 to 1 (details)

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

Received in the Senate

May 25, 2021

May 26, 2021

Failed in the Senate 0 to 36 (details)

June 10, 2021

Received