To provide the “template” or “place holder” for a Fiscal Year 2010-2011 Higher Education 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 strip out a provision establishing as the intent of the legislature that universities doing research with embryonic stem cells file an annual report to the legislature containing details on the embryos.

To not cut university operations grants by 3.1 percent from the previous year.

The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010-2011 higher education budget. This would appropriate $1.569 billion in gross spending, compared to $1.612 billion, which was the FY 2009-2010 amount enrolled in 2009, and $1.578 billion recommended by Gov. Granholm. Of this, $1.527 billion will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), $30.4 million is from "restricted funds," or earmarked state tax and fee revenue, and $11.8 million is federal revenue. This budget proposes a 3.1 percent cut to all 15 state universities and to the MSU Agricultural Experiment Station and the Cooperative Extension Service.

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

To adopt a version of this budget that does not contain a Senate-passed provision requiring additional reports from universities on their embryonic stem cell research, or one reducing university funding by 3.1 percent. For more details see analysis from the non-partisan House Fiscal Agency.

To require universities to file a report with the legislature on their "efforts to accommodate the sincerely held religious beliefs of students enrolled in counseling degree programs".

To require universities to post on the internet a "check register" showing the amount and purpose of each expenditure.

To require the universities to create 5 percent spending reduction plans that avoid restrictions on spending cuts imposed as a condition of accepting federal "stimulus" money in the previous budget.

To add back a Senate-passed provision establishing as the intent of the legislature that universities doing research with embryonic stem cells file an annual report to the legislature containing details on the embryos. Note: Although this amendment was adopted in a record roll call vote, it was later eliminated by the voice-vote adoption of the Angerer substitute.

To tie-bar the bill to House Joint Resolution AAA, meaning this bill cannot become law unless that one does also. HJR AAA is a proposed constitutional amendment that would require universities to post all expenditures on a searchable website, including purchases of goods and services, contracts, payroll, the salaries of individual employees and more.

To tie-bar the bill to House Joint Resolution AAA, meaning this bill cannot become law unless the legislature places that resolution on the ballot. HJR AAA is a proposed constitutional amendment that would require universities to post all expenditures on a searchable website, including purchases of goods and services, contracts, payroll, the salaries of individual employees and more.

To ban universites from giving employee health insurance or other benefits to the unmarried partners of the employees.

To adopt a version of this budget that does not contain the embryonic stem cell research reporting requirement previously adopted in the Hildebrand amendment.

To essentially prohibit a university from posting an online "check register" disclosing the amount and purpose of each expenditure by imposing a $100 limit on how much they could spend to accomplish this.

To add back a Senate-passed provision establishing as the intent of the legislature that universities doing research with embryonic stem cells file an annual report to the legislature containing details on the embryos.

The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010-2011 higher education budget. This would appropriate $1.625 billion in gross spending, compared to $1.612 billion, which was the FY 2009-2010 amount enrolled in 2009, and $1.578 billion recommended by Gov. Granholm. Except for $4.5 million in federal money this is all state tax and fee revenue. The House version does not contain Senate-passed provisions reducing university spending by 3.1 percent and requiring additional reports from universities on their embryonic stem cell research.

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 higher education budget. This would appropriate $1.578 billion in gross spending, compared to $1.612 billion, which was the FY 2009-2010 amount enrolled in 2009. This reduces state operations grants to universities by 2.8 percent. Agriculture experimental station and extension service spending are cut by the same amount (to $61.9 million). Senate-passed stem cell research reporting requirements are not included.