2001 House Bill 4254 / Public Act 60

Introduced in the House

Feb. 15, 2001

Introduced by Rep. Mickey Mortimer (R-65)

The executive recommendation for the FY 2001-2002 Department of Community Health budget. This appropriates $8.697 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), an increase of 2.4 percent, compared to the current year’s $8.490 billion, which was the amount enacted in 2000. Of this, $2.729 billion will come from the General Fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the current year’s $2.686 billion, an increase of 1.6 percent.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 24, 2001

Substitute offered

Which reflects changes adopted following committee testimony and discussion.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Keith Stallworth (D-12)

To increase general fund spending in most major state health care programs by three percent.

The amendment failed 49 to 57 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. A.T. Frank (D-96)

To increase general fund spending in substance abuse programs by five percent.

The amendment failed 50 to 57 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. A.T. Frank (D-96)

To allow community mental health substance abuse programs to carry forward any unused Medicaid funds from the current fiscal year to the next fiscal year, up to five percent of the total amount appropriated.

The amendment passed 107 to 0 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. A.T. Frank (D-96)

To require funds to be transferred from other parts of the budget to cover a shortfall if the amount estimated for Medicaid substance abuse program needs is below the actual amount needed.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Belda Garza (D-8)

To appropriate $500,000 more on multicultural services.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Virg Bernero (D-68)

To appropriate $667,000 for school and community based mental health programs for at-risk children, teens, and families.

The amendment failed 54 to 50 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. A.T. Frank (D-96)

To require the Department of Community Health to provide a full continuum of mental and behavioral health care to children, and also to provide school-based mental health risk assessments of children.

The amendment failed 54 to 51 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. Virg Bernero (D-68)

To appropriate $5 million to provide mental health hospitalization of children and adolescents.

The amendment failed 53 to 53 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. A.T. Frank (D-96)

To appropriate $1.5 million on infant mental health services.

The amendment failed 51 to 55 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. William O'Neil (D-24)

To appropriate $8.9 million more on subsidies for home care of disabled children.

The amendment failed 53 to 52 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. A.T. Frank (D-96)

To appropriate more on home care of severely disabled children.

The amendment failed 51 to 55 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. Virg Bernero (D-68)

To appropriate $6.25 million for mental health services in county jails.

The amendment failed 47 to 56 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. Triette Reeves (D-13)

To require the Department of Community Health to explore the establishment of pilot programs of mental health services for the homeless.

The amendment failed 53 to 52 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. A.T. Frank (D-96)

To appropriate $450,000 for a statewide fetal infant mortality review network.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Gretchen Whitmer (D-70)

To appropriate an additional $200,000 on a program that distributes surplus fresh produce to various service providers.

The amendment failed 51 to 53 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. A.T. Frank (D-96)

To appropriate an additional $280,000 on immunization programs.

The amendment failed 50 to 54 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. Keith Stallworth (D-12)

To appropriate $1.5 million on a school primary health care program.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Gary Newell (R-87)

To require the Department of Community Health to report to the legislature prior to any reduction in payments to hospitals of graduate medical education subsidies.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Keith Stallworth (D-12)

To place in statute a programmed two percent increase in the Medicaid reimbursement to hospitals.

The amendment failed 51 to 54 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. Stephen Adamini (D-109)

To put in place a commitment to establishing in the future free health care clinics in the state.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Keith Stallworth (D-12)

To require a toll free phone line for medical providers to verify the eligibility status of Medicaid recipients.

The amendment passed 99 to 0 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. Judith Scranton (R-66)

To express a legislative intent in favor of a system of magnetic identification cards for qualified recipients to reduce potential Medicaid fraud.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Chris Kolb (D-53)

To appropriate an additional $400,000 on payments to HMOs for increased costs due to AIDS.

The amendment failed 49 to 56 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. Andy Neumann (D-106)

To appropriate an additional $3.5 million to pay for a relaxing of Medicaid nursing home occupancy standards which must be met to qualify for funding.

The amendment failed 53 to 52 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. Marc Shulman (R-39)

To remove a cap on the hourly compensation rate for health care workers providing Medicaid-reimbursed home health care services.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Michael Murphy (D-69)

To encourage the resolution of a contractual dispute between certain area agencies on aging over management services.

The amendment failed 45 to 54 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. Andy Neumann (D-106)

To appropriate $150,000 more on a stroke prevention initiative.

The amendment failed 51 to 55 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. Paul Gieleghem (D-31)

To raise the family income cap for eligibility for certain home health care services for seniors.

The amendment failed 54 to 51 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. Julie Dennis (D-92)

To require the Department of Community Health to provide respite care.

The amendment failed 51 to 55 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. Gretchen Whitmer (D-70)

To require HMOs to provide pay for hospice services for the terminally ill.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Gretchen Whitmer (D-70)

To raise the family income cap for eligibility for state assistance for breast and cervical cancer care coverage.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Derrick Hale (D-14)

To appropriate $500,000 for a breast and cervical cancer mobile screening unit.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Gretchen Whitmer (D-70)

To appropriate an additional $1.5 million on cancer care and prevention programs.

The amendment failed 54 to 52 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. Derrick Hale (D-14)

To appropriate $150,000 on a prostate cancer outreach program though the “100 Black Men” organization.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Derrick Hale (D-14)

To appropriate an additional $60,000 on African American men health care services.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Michael Murphy (D-69)

To require $45,000 be spent from the minority health grants and contract line item on the Ingham County health collaborative.

The amendment failed 46 to 56 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. Keith Stallworth (D-12)

To appropriate $125,000 on programs at a certain athletic institute.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. A.T. Frank (D-96)

To appropriate an additional $200,000 on state mental health facility patient advocacy.

The amendment failed 53 to 53 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. Jerry Vander Roest (R-63)

To require a legislative workgroup to study possible unfairly disproportionate geographical allocation of $45 million paid to hospitals which serve a high percentage of low income and Medicaid patients.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Stephen Adamini (D-109)

To put in place a commitment to establishing in the future free health care clinics in the state.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Triette Reeves (D-13)

To require the Department of Community Health to prepare a report for the legislature on the numbers of prisoners being treated for mental illness and substance abuse and the nature of the services provided.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Gretchen Whitmer (D-70)

To require the Department of Community Health to work with local agencies to seek local money for a program that distributes surplus fresh produce to various service providers.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Virg Bernero (D-68)

To appropriate $660,000 for school and community based mental health programs for at-risk children, teens, and families.

The amendment failed 54 to 53 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. Patricia Lockwood (D-51)

To expand a program which provides private dental insurance to Medicaid recipients if funds become available.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. A.T. Frank (D-96)

To require the Department of Community Health to prepare a report for the legislature on the methodology used to determine reimbursement rates for local mental health service providers.

The amendment failed 52 to 54 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. Rich Brown (D-110)

To appropriate million for rural health initiatives.

The amendment failed 50 to 56 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. Mark Schauer (D-62)

To appropriate an additional $1,008,200 on smoking prevention programs.

The amendment passed 98 to 8 (details)

Amendment offered by Rep. Andy Neumann (D-106)

To appropriate more on a program that encourages and rewards nursing homes which pay more to employees.

The amendment failed 50 to 50 (details)

Passed in the House 102 to 1 (details)

To adopt a House version of the FY 2001-2002 Department of Community Health budget. This appropriates $8.771 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), an increase of 3.3 percent compared to the current year’s $8.490 billion, which was the amount enacted in 2000. Of this, $2.748 billion will come from the General Fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the current year’s $2.686 billion, an increase of 2.3 percent.

Received in the Senate

April 24, 2001

May 30, 2001

Substitute offered

Which reflects changes adopted following committee testimony and discussion, amended to provide that if tax revenue comes in at a greater than expected rate, it will be used first to restore services which have been cut as a result of reduced revenues, and to increase reimbursements to Medicaid health care providers by two percent, and to require the Department of Community Health to apply for a federal grant to support self-determination initiatives for persons with developmental disabilities or mental illness, and to remove the prohibition under the "Certificate of Need" program on there being more that two positron emission tomography machines in the state.

The substitute passed by voice vote

May 31, 2001

Passed in the Senate 33 to 0 (details)

To adopt a Senate version of the FY 2001-2002 Department of Community Health budget. This appropriates $8.730 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), an increase of 2.8 percent compared to the current year’s $8.490 billion, which was the amount enacted in 2000. Of this, $2.729 billion will come from the General Fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the current year’s $2.686 billion, an increase of 1.6 percent.

Received in the House

May 31, 2001

June 6, 2001

Failed in the House 1 to 103 (details)

To not concur with a Senate-passed version of the bill, and sent it to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differences.

Received

July 10, 2001

Passed in the House 103 to 0 (details)

To adopt a House-Senate conference report for the FY 2001-2002 Department of Community Health budget. This appropriates $8.596 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), an increase of 1.2 percent compared to the current year’s $8.490 billion, which was the amount enacted in 2000. Of this, $2.653 billion will come from the General Fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the current year’s $2.686 billion, a decrease of 1.2 percent.

Received in the Senate

July 10, 2001

July 11, 2001

Passed in the Senate 33 to 0 (details)

Received in the House

July 11, 2001

Signed with line-item veto by Gov. John Engler

July 23, 2001