2006 Senate Bill 1096

Appropriations: 2006-2007 State Police budget

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 28, 2006

Introduced by Sen. Hansen Clarke (D-1)

The executive recommendation for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2006-2007 state police budget. This appropriates $578.4 million in unadjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars), compared to $550.8 million, which was the FY 2005-2006 amount enrolled in 2005. Of this, $255.3 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2005-2006 amount of $234.0 million, and $111.3 million will come from state restricted funds.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 24, 2006

Reported without amendment

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

Substitute offered

To replace the executive proposal for this budget with one that expresses policy differences between the Republican-majority in the Senate and Governor Jennifer Granholm on certain spending items and funding sources. For much more detail see <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/billanalysis/Senate/pdf/2005-SFA-1096-F.pdf">analysis</a> from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Hansen Clarke (D-1)

To require certain unexpended funds from the previous year's budget, to the extent they are not used to fill a minor gap in the state police pension system, to be used to run a new "trooper school," which means to hire and train new state police troopers.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 38 to 0 (details)

The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2006-2007 state police budget. This appropriates $566.7 million in gross spending, compared to $550.8 million, which was the FY 2005-2006 amount enrolled in 2005. Of this, $255.3 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2005-2006 amount of $234.0 million, and $111.3 million will come from state restricted funds.

Received in the House

May 24, 2006

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 31, 2006

Reported without amendment

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

Substitute offered

To strip out all of the appropriations from the Senate-passed version of the bill, leaving it as just a "shell" or "placeholder." This is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 73 to 31 (details)

To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations, leaving it as a "template" or "placeholder." 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

June 1, 2006

June 6, 2006

Failed in the Senate 0 to 37 (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.

Received in the House

June 8, 2006

Received in the Senate

June 13, 2006