2013 Senate Bill 197

Appropriations: Department of Corrections

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 13, 2013

Introduced by Sen. John Proos (R-21)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2013-2014 Department of Corrections budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 23, 2013

Reported without amendment

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

April 30, 2013

Substitute offered

The substitute passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Glenn Anderson (D-6)

To strip out provisions authorizing privatization of prison food service and possibly a prison itself.

The amendment failed 11 to 26 (details)

Passed in the Senate 22 to 15 (details)

The Senate version of the Department of Corrections budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2013. This would appropriate $2.020 billion in gross spending, compared to $2.000 billion originally appropriated for the current fiscal year. Of this, just $8.8 million is federal money, and the rest is from state taxes and fees.

Received in the House

April 30, 2013

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 14, 2013

Substitute offered by Rep. Joseph Haveman (R-90)

To adopt a version of the budget that contains no appropriations, but is instead intended to launch negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

The substitute passed by voice vote

May 15, 2013

Passed in the House 60 to 48 (details)

To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations. This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

Received in the Senate

May 16, 2013

Failed in the Senate 0 to 38 (details)

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.

June 5, 2013

Received

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations