2022 Senate Bill 827

Apppropriations:_Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

Introduced in the Senate

Jan. 20, 2022

Introduced by Sen. Roger Victory (R-30)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2022-23 Department of Agriculture and Rural Development budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 28, 2022

Reported without amendment

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

May 3, 2022

Amendment offered by Sen. Jeff Irwin (D-18)

To add eight new department staffers and up to $30 million in department spending on grants "to support the food supply chain from Michigan farms".

The amendment failed 13 to 22 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Winnie Brinks (D-29)

To add three staffers and an additional $10 million in spending said to "support community activities,' including but not limited to more state spending on "broadband, housing, infrastructure, education, workforce development" and more.

The amendment failed 13 to 22 (details)

Passed in the Senate 22 to 13 (details)

The Senate version of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2022. This would appropriate $142.2 million in gross spending, of which $19.6 million is federal money.

Received in the House

May 4, 2022

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 18, 2022

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

To replace the bill with one that "zeroes-out" the specific appropriation amounts passed by the Senate.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 58 to 48 (details)

To send the bill back to the Senate stripped of all actual appropriations except for $100 “placeholders," as part of a process to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

Received in the Senate

May 19, 2022

Failed in the Senate 0 to 34 (details)

Received in the House

May 24, 2022