Introduced
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To provide the “template” or “place holder” for a Senate Republican version of a Fiscal Year 2007-2008 Strategic Fund budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
To replace the executive proposal for this budget with one that expresses spending level and policy differences between the Republican-majority in the Senate and Governor Jennifer Granholm on certain spending items and funding sources. See Senate-passed version for more, and for details see the Senate Fiscal Agency analysis (link available through the “Text and Analysis” tab at the top of this bill’s MichiganVotes page).
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To increase by $10 million spending on tourism industry subsidies in the form of government advertising campaigns.
Consideration postponed
Withdrawn
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The amendment to increase tourism promotion subsidies.
Amendment offered
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To strip out a $1.5 million appropriation for a private facility that produces drugs approved for use in clinical trials.
The amendment failed 18 to 20 (details)
Amendment offered
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To increase by $10 million spending on tourism industry subsidies in the form of government advertising campaigns.
The amendment failed 18 to 20 (details)
Amendment offered
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To establish as the intent of the legislature that the Strategic Funs only award tax breaks or other economic development incentives to companies that only Michigan workers, or more Michigan workers than other tax break and incentive candidates.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 23 to 15 (details)
The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2007-2008 Strategic Fund budget. This appropriates $164.3 million in gross spending. Of this, $28.1 million will come from the General Fund, and $75 million from tobacco lawsuit settlement revenue, which would be used for the “<a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2005-HB-5047">21st Century Jobs Fund</a>”) business subsidy program.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Substitute offered
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To use the bill as a legislative "vehicle" to carry another exchange in the ongoing struggle between the House and Senate regarding proposal by Gov. Granholm to borrow and spend $806 million on state and university construction projects with a total cost of some $1.5 billion, plus other spending. For details see the <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/billanalysis/House/pdf/2007-HLA-5221-3.pdf">analysis</a> of House Bill 5221 from the House Fiscal Agency, and also see <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-511">Senate Bill 511</a>. This substitute includes both that money and an authorization to spend $186 million of mostly federal money on airport improvement projects.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To strip out the authorization to borrow and spend $1.583 billion for state government, university and community college construction projects, and just leave the authorization to spend mostly federal money on airport improvement projects.
The amendment failed 48 to 58 (details)
Passed in the House 63 to 44 (details)
To authorize spending more than $1.583 billion for state government, university and community college construction projects, of which $806 million would come from direct state borrowing, and the balance from other revenue sources. In addition, the bill authorizes the use of $186 million in mostly federal money for military base and airport safety and improvement projects. See also <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-511">Senate Bill 511</a>) and <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2008-HB-5221">House Bill 5221</a>.
