To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential supplemental school aid appropriation for Fiscal Year 2009-2010. Note: This would accommodate proposals to adopt a budget that includes no taxes before the fiscal year begins, while then passing tax hikes and supplemental budgets to spend them afterwards.   Official Text and Analysis.

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

To replace the previous version of the bill with one that contains actual appropriations.

To add $3 million audits of businesses liable for payments under the property tax that is levied on business tools and equipment (personal property tax).

To appropriate $101.5 million to restore a 4 percent Medicaid reimbursement rate cut to hospitals and nursing homes. The money would come from additional revenue from a tax levied on nursing home and hospitals, which is used to get more federal Medicaid money. The bill also appropriates lesser amounts for election integrity measures, outsourcing work former Detroit crime lab work, drug treatment courts, more business tax audits, and more. Finally, it would allow the Michigan Historical Museum to charge user fees.

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-6) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

To replace the previous version of the bill with one that adds additional appropriations, adopts various funding source shifts, and more.

To appropriate $10 million for tourism industry promotional subsidies ("Pure Michigan" ads).

To appropriate $6.5 million for a particular welfare-to-work program ("JET Plus").

To appropriate $101.5 million to restore a 4 percent Medicaid reimbursement rate cut to hospitals and nursing homes. The money would come from additional revenue from a tax levied on nursing home and hospitals, which is used to get more federal Medicaid money. The bill also appropriates lesser amounts for a variety of purposes, and adopts various fund-shifts and revenue recognitions to match spending with revenue in the 2009-2010 budget. In particular it replaces $101.8 million in general fund revenue appropriated to the Community Health budget with tobacco lawsuit money, and also substitutes federal "stimulus" money for state general fund dollars in a number of areas.