2015 Senate Bill 133 / Public Act 84

Appropriations: 2015-2016 “Omnibus” budget

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 17, 2015

Introduced by Sen. Dave Hildenbrand (R-29)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for a Fiscal Year 2015-2016 “Omnibus” budget funding all state departments. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 5, 2015

Amendment offered

To revise a number of appropriations and fund sources to reflect the outcome of deliberations held subsequent to the bill being reported from committee.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood (D-6)

To add $1.2 million for government pesticide and plant pest management regulatory and enforcement activities.

The amendment failed 11 to 26 (details)

Motion to reconsider by Sen. Mike Kowall (R-15)

The vote by which the amendments offered by Senator Hopgood was not adopted.

The motion passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood (D-6)

To add $1.2 million for government pesticide and plant pest management regulatory and enforcement activities.

The amendment failed 12 to 26 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Coleman Young (D-1)

To increase spending on government preschool reading programs by $29 million, and increase eligibility for certain means-tested preschool programs by increasing family income caps.

The amendment failed 11 to 27 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood (D-6)

To add $1.5 million in spending and eight additional staffers to government food safety regulation and enforcement activities.

The amendment failed 11 to 27 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Curtis Hertel (D-23)

To appropriate $1 million for a study to determine how much money per student is needed for a public school to educate students under the current system.

The amendment failed 11 to 27 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood (D-6)

To add $12.9 million to the $20 million appropriated for leaking underground fuel tank cleanups.

The amendment failed 11 to 27 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Coleman Young (D-1)

To spend $280,800 on a Detroit "environmental justice pre-apprenticeship" program.

The amendment failed 11 to 27 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Coleman Young (D-1)

To add $10 million for "law enforcement agencies technology upgrades," which among other things could include police body cameras.

The amendment failed 11 to 27 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Vincent Gregory (D-11)

To add $8.9 million to keep open the Maxey state reformatory in Whitmore Lake.

The amendment failed 14 to 24 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Vincent Gregory (D-11)

To add $1.3 million to Department of Corrections prisoner rehabilitation programs.

The amendment failed 11 to 27 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Vincent Gregory (D-11)

To add $275,000 to $600,000 proposed for additional assistance for adopted children who turn out to have more problems than were recognized when they were adopted.

The amendment failed 11 to 27 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Vincent Gregory (D-11)

To add $1.1 million for undefined, welfare-related "emergency assistance" spending.

The amendment failed 11 to 27 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. David Knezek (D-5)

To require the state welfare agency to report on the number of recipients cut off due chronic truancy of children in the household, and the number of teenagers removed from a welfare household due to truancy under a program instituted by the Governor.

The amendment failed 11 to 27 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Bert Johnson (D-2)

To require more legislative oversight of the location and closing of welfare agency offices.

The amendment failed 11 to 27 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Morris Hood (D-3)

To add 100 more welfare agency field staff to the 4,693 proposed, and add $2 million to this $463 million line item.

The amendment failed 11 to 27 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Coleman Young (D-1)

To appropriate $2.1 million for a program intended to reimburse insurance companies for the costs imposed by a new autism coverage mandate.

The amendment failed 13 to 25 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Rebekah Warren (D-18)

To require the state unemployment insurance agency to report details and outcomes from its fraud prevention efforts over the past five years.

The amendment failed 14 to 24 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Curtis Hertel (D-23)

To spend $500,000 on sexual assault prevention and education programs on college campuses.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Coleman Young (D-1)

To spend $14.7 million on a bridge to separate rail and vehicle traffic on Allen Road in Woodhaven.

The amendment failed 12 to 26 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Coleman Young (D-1)

To spend $300,000 on a Detroit area pre-college engineering program.

The amendment failed 11 to 27 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Ken Horn (R-32)

To prohibit the Secretary of State from closing a branch office in Buena Vista township near Saginaw.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 23 to 15 (details)

The Senate version of the non-education portion of the state government budget for the fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1, 2015. This would appropriate $38.0 billion, compared to $37.4 billion originally appropriated the previous year. Of this, $17.2 billion comes from state tax, fee and other revenue, compared to $17.6 billion the previous year. The rest of this budget is federal money ($20.8 billion, compared to $19.8 billion the previous year). The education portion of the budget (K-12, community colleges and state universities) is in Senate Bill 134. Altogether, the Senate proposes to spend $53.9 billion next year, vs. $53.2 billion originally appropriated for the current year.

Received in the House

May 7, 2015

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 19, 2015

Passed in the House 100 to 8 (details)

To adopt a "placeholder" version of this budget that contains no appropriations or just nominal ones. This is a procedural step designed to facilitate eventual passage of a real budget based on amounts and conditions approved by the House and Senate.

Received in the Senate

May 20, 2015

Failed in the Senate 0 to 36 (details)

To concur with the House-passed version of the bill. The vote sends the measure to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differences.

Received in the House

May 20, 2015

June 3, 2015

Passed in the House 70 to 39 (details)

The non-education portion of the state government budget for the fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1, 2015. This would appropriate $38.623 billion, compared to $37.378 billion originally appropriated the previous year. Of this, $17.425 billion comes from state tax, fee and other revenue, compared to $17.553 billion the previous year. The rest of this budget is federal money ($21.199 billion, compared to $19.825 billion the previous year). The education portion of the budget (K-12, community colleges and state universities) is in House Bill 4115. Altogether, the legislature proposes to spend , $54.443 billion next year, vs. $53.129 originally approved for the current year.

Received in the Senate

June 3, 2015

Passed in the Senate 22 to 16 (details)

Signed with line-item veto by Gov. Rick Snyder

June 17, 2015

Received in the Senate

June 18, 2015

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations