2014 Senate Bill 765

Appropriations: Department of Education

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 11, 2014

Introduced by Sen. Howard Walker (R-37)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2014-2015 Department Of Education budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 29, 2014

Reported without amendment

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

May 8, 2014

Substitute offered

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 28 to 10 (details)

The Senate version of the Department of Education budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2014. This would appropriate $326.6 million, compared to $298.3 million the previous year. $226.0 million of this is federal money.

Received in the House

May 8, 2014

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 14, 2014

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

Passed in the House 109 to 0 (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 20, 2014

Failed in the Senate 0 to 37 (details)

June 12, 2014

Received

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations