To provide the “template” or “place holder” for a Fiscal Year 2010-2011 Department of Community Health budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.   Official Text and Analysis.

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

To adopt a version of this budget that expresses the fiscal and policy preferences of the Republican-majority in the Senate on various spending items and programs. For details see analysis from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency.

To reduce the Medicaid patient copay for an inpatient hospital stay from $100 per day to $50 per day.

To strip out a provision that would transfer the provision of certain MiChild services from Blue Cross Blue Shield to Medicaid HMOs.

To add spending for Medicaid mental health services.

To add spending for an "early childhood collaborative secondary prevention" program.

To add funding for certain immunization grants and programs, "minority health grants," chronic disease prevention programs, and more.

To add funding for "health plan services".

To increase spending on mental health services, adult medical services, and other items.

To move back from Oct. 1 2010 to Oct1. 1, 2015 the due date for a report the budget would require from the Department of Community Health on the impact of the federal health care legislation.

The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010-2011 Department of Community Health budget. This would appropriate $13.65 billion in gross spending, compared to $13.092 billion, which was the FY 2009-2010 amount enrolled in 2009, and $14.396 billion recommended by Gov. Granholm. Of this, $9.393 billion is federal money (which includes $920 million of “stimulus” deficit spending), compared to the FY 2009-2010 amount of $8.949 billion.

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

To adopt a version of this budget that expresses the fiscal and policy preferences of the Democratic-majority in the House on various spending items and programs. For details see analysis from the non-partisan House Fiscal Agency.

To remove a particular $100 "point of difference" with the Senate-passed version related to a federal Medicare pharmaceutical program. This means the House and Senate are in consensus on this particular item.

To reduce the number of employees in the department's administration and management.

To require the department to file with the legislature a detailed monthly report on expenditures for the past month.

The House version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010-2011 Department of Community Health budget. This would appropriate $13.712 billion in gross spending, compared to $13.092 billion, which was the FY 2009-2010 amount enrolled in 2009, and $14.396 billion recommended by Gov. Granholm. Of this, $9.438 billion is federal money (which includes $927.3 million of “stimulus” deficit spending), compared to the FY 2009-2010 amount of $8.949 billion.

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) 2010-2011 Department of Community Health budget. This would appropriate $14.124 billion in gross spending, compared to $13.092 billion, which was the FY 2009-2010 amount enrolled in 2009. Of this, $9.473 billion is federal money (which includes $650.3 million of “stimulus” deficit spending), compared to the FY 2009-2010 amount of $8.949 billion.