2021 House Bill 4398 / Public Act 133

Appropriations: 2021-22 General Government budget

Introduced in the House

March 2, 2021

Introduced by Rep. Greg VanWoerkom (R-91)

To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential “general government” appropriation for the 2021-2022 fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2021. This bill contains nominal appropriations only, but may be amended at a later date to include real ones. This budget funds legislature; the executive office; the Attorney General and Secretary of State departments; the Department of Treasury, the Department of Technology, Management, and Budget, and the Department of Civil Rights.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 11, 2021

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-3) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

May 12, 2021

Amendment offered by Rep. Thomas Albert (R-86)

To reduce the county "maintenance of effort" requirement associated with certain county grants.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Sue Allor (R-106)

To increase spending on certain "independent living" services. Also, under a Steven Johnson amendment, to cut funding for state occupational health and safety regulators.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Terry Sabo (D-92)

To appropriate the department's full year budget, not just three months worth.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Matt Koleszar (D-20)

To increase funding for Secretary of State branch offices, and revise funding sources for this.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Sarah Anthony (D-68)

To increase spending on certain job training and apprenticeship programs.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Julie Rogers (D-60)

To repurpose certain grants to subsidize redevelopment of contaminated, functionally obsolete, blighted, or historic properties.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Jim Haadsma (D-62)

To authorize more subsidies for broadband develop and companies.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Terry Sabo (D-92)

To authorize more spending on grants for specified local police programs and activities.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Scott VanSingel (R-100)

To require the state unemployment agency to reopen for full-time, in-person services, and require that it enforce provisions requiring beneficiaries to seek gainful employment.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Richard Steenland (D-22)

To spend more on grants to local governments for fire and police professional development and training.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Kevin Coleman (D-16)

To increase spending on a particular line item that no longer appears in the versions of the bill posted on the legislature's website.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Greg VanWoerkom (R-91)

To strip out a provision that authorizes certain broadband subsidies.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 57 to 50 (details)

The House version of the General Government budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2021, which funds the legislature; the executive office; Attorney General; Secretary of State; Treasury Department; Department of Civil Rights; the Department of Technology, Management, and Budget; the Department of Talent and Economic Development; and various other state agencies. This would appropriate $3.074 billion in gross spending, of which $297 million is federal money.

Received in the Senate

May 13, 2021

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

May 19, 2021

Passed in the Senate 20 to 16 (details)

Received in the House

May 19, 2021

May 26, 2021

Passed in the House 0 to 109 (details)

To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill. The failed vote is a procedural device used for launching negotiations over the differences between the House and Senate budgets, and eventually for negotiating a final budget between a Republican-controlled legislature and a Democratic governor.

Received in the Senate

Dec. 14, 2021

Passed in the Senate 35 to 1 (details)

To authorize an additional $724.8 million in spending in the current fiscal year, for various epidemic response/social welfare items and some unrelated to those, of which $70.2 million comes from state taxpayers and the balance is federal.

Received in the House

Dec. 14, 2021

Passed in the House 94 to 9 (details)

To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill.

Signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Dec. 20, 2021