To provide a “template” or “place holder” for a Fiscal Year (FY) 2003-2004 Department of Career Development budget. This budget contains no appropriations, but these may be added later to make changes to current or future departmental appropriations.   Official Text and Analysis.

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

To replace the executive proposal for this budget, contained in Senate Bill 309, with a budget which expresses policy differences between the Republican-majority in the Senate and Governor Jennifer Granholm on certain spending items. See Senate-passed version for details.

To remove a provision which would require the Focus:Hope organization to compete with other social service groups for funding in the future, rather than having its own line item in the budget.

To appropriate an additional $780,000 for "Michigan Volunteer Investment" grants, which subsidize non-profit social service organizations which use volunteers.

To appropriate an additional $530,000 for "Michigan Volunteer Investment" grants, which subsidize non-profit social service organizations which use volunteers.

To appropriate an additional $2 million to the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) “job creation services” line item, and $2 million to the “economic development grants” line item, by removing $4 million from the MEDC administration line item, leaving it with $54,700.

To appropriate an additional $780,000 to the $3.15 million Focus: Hope organization grant by shifting funds from the Department of Career Development administration line item.

To appropriate an additional $2 million to the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) “job creation services” line item, and $2 million to the “economic development grants” line item.

The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2003-2004 Department of Career Development and the Michigan Strategic Fund budgets. (Note: Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s proposed budget for this department is Senate Bill 309 .) This appropriates $566.4 million in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $605.9 million, which was the FY 2002-2003 amount enrolled in 2002, excluding any supplemental appropriations, line-item vetoes, or later cuts. Of this, $55.3 million will come from the General Fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2002-2003 amount enrolled in 2002 of $64.5 million. Among other changes, the budget reduces Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) funding by $4 million more than the $36 million cut the governor proposed. Much more information on Michigan’s budget is available at Hot Topics: Michigan’s Budget Challenge at www.mackinac.org/4964.

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

To replace the Senate version of this budget with a House version which expresses policy differences between the bodies on certain spending items. See House-passed version for details.

To add $4 million to the MEDC administration line item. The Senate transferred this money to particular programs funded by the department, leaving administration with $54,700.

To insert a $100 “point of difference” between the House and Senate versions of the bill on funding for precollege programs in engineering and sciences. This opens these items up to negotiations between the bodies in an expected conference committee on the differences between the House- and Senate-passed versions of this budget.

To require that $25,000 of the tourism promotion money in this budget be spent promoting the northeast region of the state.

To require the state Work First employment program to seek job placements which pay $8 per hour, rather than $6 per hour under current law.

To appropriate an additional $2 million to the $3.86 million Focus: Hope organization grant, with the money coming from the job training programs line item.

To strip out a provision prohibiting any Michigan Works! regional employment agency from receiving more than twice the funding per participant as any other regional agency. The provision was added following reports that Detroit's agency is granted three times more funding per participant as the lowest-funded agencies.

To insert $10 million for a grant to create a life sciences research and commercialization center in the Kalamazoo area, intended to keep in the area 75 to 100 scientists and support staff formerly employed by the Pfizer/Pharmacia Corporation. This is in response to news that following the purchase by Pfizer of the Pharmacia Corporation, the company will close some drug research operations in the area. The $10 million will come from money that would have been used for a targeted tax credit that Pfizer will not receive, because current law makes the credit contingent on creating a certain number of new jobs.

To appropriate $100,000 for a Genesee County skill center to establish a precollege program in engineering and the sciences.

To add $4 million to the MEDC administration line item. The Senate transferred this money to particular programs funded by the department, leaving administration with $54,700.

To replace a provision prohibiting any Michigan Works! regional agency from receiving more than twice the funding per participant as any other regional agency with a requirement that the Department of Career Development should determine the formula for the allocation to regional agencies. The provision was added following reports that Detroit's agency is granted three times more funding per participant as the lowest-funded agencies.

The House version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2003-2004 Department of Career Development and the Michigan Strategic Fund budgets. (Note: Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s proposed budget for this department is Senate Bill 309 .) This appropriates $576.4 million in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $605.9 million, which was the FY 2002-2003 amount enrolled in 2002, excluding any supplemental appropriations, line-item vetoes, or later cuts. Of this, $65.3 million will come from the General Fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2002-2003 amount enrolled in 2002 of $64.5 million. Among other changes, the budget reduces Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) funding by $4 million more than $36 million cut the governor proposed. The House added $10 million for a grant to create a life sciences research and commercialization center in the Kalamazoo area, intended to keep in the area 75 to 100 scientists and support staff formerly employed by the Pfizer/Pharmacia Corporation. This is in response to news that following the purchase by Pfizer of the Pharmacia Corporation, the company will close some drug research operations in the area. The $10 million will come from money that would have been used for a targeted tax credit that Pfizer will not receive, because current law makes the credit contingent on creating a certain number of new jobs. Much more information on Michigan’s budget is available at Hot Topics: Michigan’s Budget Challenge at www.mackinac.org/4964.

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.

The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2003-2004 Department of Career Development and the Michigan Strategic Fund budgets. (Note: Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s proposed budget for this department is Senate Bill 309 .) This appropriates $571.2 million in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $605.9 million, which was the FY 2002-2003 amount enrolled in 2002, excluding any supplemental appropriations, line-item vetoes, or later cuts. Of this, $65.2 million will come from the General Fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2002-2003 amount enrolled in 2002 of $64.5 million. The Strategic Fund/ Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) share of this is $104.4 million gross, and $40.5 million from the General Fund, which is increased by $5 million above the amount originally recommended by the governor. The FY 2002-2003 amounts were $147.5 million gross and $38 million from the General Fund. Much more information on Michigan’s budget is available at Hot Topics: Michigan’s Budget Challenge at www.mackinac.org/4964.