To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2013-2014 General Government 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.

To increase business subsidy and related spending, and specify particular "Michigan Strategic Fund" spending items, including $29 million in tourism industry marketing subsidies ("pure Michigan" ads), $7 million for government "land bank" property acquisitions, $9.8 million for a summer jobs program, and more. Also, to add $25 million for film producer subsidies (for a total of $50 million).

To increase state revenue sharing to local governments, and more.

To require that all money spent by the “Michigan Strategic Fund” must be actually appropriated by the Legislature. This agency oversees both government job training programs and the state “economic development” apparatus that delivers selective corporate tax breaks and subsidies to particular firms. Under current law, state revenue from Indian casino agreements goes directly to the Strategic Fund with no legislative vote or approval required.

To authorize spending on "pre-college engineering" programs in Detroit and Grand Rapids, with the exact amount to be determined later.

To prohibit the state Attorney General from spending any proceeds from legal actions it is involved in unless the money is formally appropriated by the legislature.

The vote by which the fifth set of amendments offered by Senator Johnson were not adopted. These included increases spending on various programs, including an additional $25 million on state subsidies to film producers, raising the total amount for that to $50 million in the next fiscal year.

To increase spending on various programs, including an additional $25 million on state subsidies to film producers, raising the total amount for that to $50 million in the next fiscal year.

To delete a provision setting aside $103 million out of the $1.5 billion in extra federal money the state would collect from accepting the federal health care law’s expansion of Medicaid, which would bring in more federal money in the short term but require higher state spending in a few years. As passed by the Senate, this budget does not appropriate money for this "Obamacare" Medicaid expansion.

To revise the proposed funding source for various spending deemed "one time" items.

To increase spending on various programs, including an additional $25 million on state subsidies to film producers, raising the total proposed for this to $50 million in the next fiscal year. Upon reconsideration however, the amendment was adopted in a voice vote.

The Senate version of the General Government budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2013. This would appropriate $4.423 billion in gross spending. This vote was later reconsidered and the budget passed again after adding an additional $25 million for film producer subsidies.

The vote by which the bill was passed.

The Senate version of the General Government budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2013, which funds legislature, the executive office, Attorney General, Secretary of State, Treasury, Department of Civil Rights, the Department of Technology, Management, and Budget, and various other state agencies. This would appropriate $4.447 billion in gross spending, of which $700.0 million is federal money. $1.117 billion of this budget is paid out in revenue sharing to local governments.

To adopt a version of the budget that contains no appropriations, but is instead intended to launch negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations. This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

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.