To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential supplemental appropriation for Fiscal Year 2013-2014. 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 revise Medicaid accounting to reflect the transition from a 1 percent "health insurance claims tax" to the imposition of the 6 percent "use tax" on Medicaid managed care health care providers (hospitals). These various levies are designed to “game” the federal Medicaid program in ways that result in higher federal payments to Michigan’s medical welfare establishment (including those same hospitals). See Senate Bill 893 and Senate Bill 913.

With the recommendation that the following amendments be adopted and that the bill then pass.

To not include a provision from the Senate-passed version that would repeal a $250,000 appropriation for a pilot program granting extended assistance to minors who are "aging out" of the foster care system.

To end a prison food service contract with the Aramark corporation, reopen the bidding for the contract, and let unionized prison employees bid on it.

To end a prison food service contract with the Aramark corporation, reopen the bidding for the contract, and let unionized prison employees bid on it.