Introduced by Rep. Chuck Moss R-Birmingham on September 27, 2011
To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential supplemental multidepartment appropriation for Fiscal Year 2011-2012.This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them. Official Text and Analysis.
Referred to the House Appropriations Committee on September 27, 2011
Reported in the House on June 13, 2012
Without amendment and with the recommendation that the bill pass.
To appropriate $88.8 million that mostly comes from a national mortgage foreclosure lawsuit settlement for various spending, including $25 million for urban “blight” reduction programs (of which $10 goes to Detroit), $20 million for home loan “debt counseling” and legal subsidies, $15 million for home loan subsidies, and more.
Motion by Sen. Arlan Meekhof R-West Olive on July 18, 2012
Amendment offered by Rep. Jim Ananich D-Grandville on July 18, 2012
To spend more on foreclosure malpractice investigations.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on July 18, 2012
Amendment offered by Rep. Rashida Tlaib D-Detroit on July 18, 2012
To not use $10 million of the money to fund "technology" improvements and building maintenance in certain failed schools, and instead spend this money on "grants to community-based neighborhood block organizations addressing vacant foreclosed homes".
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on July 18, 2012