Introduced
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To provide the “template” or “place holder” for a Fiscal Year 2008-2009 Higher Education budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them. Gov. Granholm's recommendation for this budget is (see <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2009-SB-1154">Senate Bill 1154</a>).
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 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. See Senate-passed version for more, and for details see <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/billanalysis/Senate/htm/2007-SFA-1099-U.htm">analysis</a> from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 37 to 1 (details)
The Senate version of the Fiscal Year 2008-2009 higher education budget. This would appropriate $1.799 billion in gross spending, of which all but $7.4 million is general fund and other money raised in this state. This compares to $1.896 appropriated in FY 2007-2008, which was inflated by the inclusion of a delayed disbursement from the previous year’s budget. The budget spends the same amount as Gov. Granholm’s executive recommendation (<a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2008-SB-1154">Senate Bill 1154</a>), but rather than increasing the increases to various schools by 2.3 and 6.2 percent based on factors such as the number of low-income students, graduation rates, and amount of research and technology transfer, the Senate would just give them all 3 percent more.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
To replace the Senate version of this budget with one that expresses the preferences of the House majority on various spending items and funding sources. For more see details see the <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/billanalysis/House/pdf/2007-HLA-1099-4.pdf">analysis</a> from the non-partisan House Fiscal Agency.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To establish that the legislature "expects" (but does not require) that each university limit tuition increases to the rate of inflation.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To prohibit state universties from extending employee benefits to the unmarried partners of employees, and dock 5 percent of the state aid to a university that does anyway.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To prohibit state universities from charging illegal aliens tuition that is below the non-resident rate.
The amendment passed 90 to 17 (details)
Amendment offered
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To reduce grants to UM, MSU and WMU by a small amount, and shift that money to the other 12 state universities.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require state universities to participate in a system such as the voluntary system of accountability (VSA) program developed by the American Association of State Ccolleges and Universities (AASCU) and the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC).
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require state universities accept any Michigan resident who graduates in the top 10 percent of his or her high school class.
The amendment passed 71 to 36 (details)
Amendment offered
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To require universities that get a state aid increase to cut in-state undergraduate tuition by 5 percent.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To remove language aimed at a dispute between Wayne State University medical school and the Detroit Medical Center. The language establishes as the intent of the legislature that "the governing board of each state university examine university operations for potential conflicts of interest".
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To revise the allocation formula for distributing state aid to universities to base increases on the allocation amounts in 2006-2007, with a funding "floor" of $3,775 per student.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Substitute offered
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To adopt a substitute version of the bill that is essentially identical to the original substitute before it was amended, as a means to sweep away a series of Republican amendments that were added to the bill. This allows the amendments to be indirectly defeated without requiring "vulnerable" Democrats to cast "no" votes on them that might be used against them in a political campaign.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 61 to 45 (details)
The House version of the Fiscal Year 2008-2009 higher education budget. This would appropriate $1.799 billion in gross spending, of which all but $7.4 million is general fund and other money raised in this state. This compares to $1.896 appropriated in FY 2007-2008, which was inflated by the inclusion of a delayed disbursement from the previous year’s budget. The budget spends the same amount as Gov. Granholm’s executive recommendation (<a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2008-SB-1154">Senate Bill 1154</a>), but rather than increasing the increases to various schools by 2.3 and 6.2 percent based on factors such as the number of low-income students, graduation rates, and amount of research and technology transfer, the House just gives them 2.7 percent more; it also spends more on Indian tuition waivers than the Senate version.
Failed in the Senate 9 to 29 (details)
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.
Passed in the House 92 to 15 (details)
The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year 2008-2009 higher education budget. This would appropriate $1.769 billion in gross spending. This compares to $1.896 appropriated in FY 2007-2008, which was inflated by the inclusion of $127.2 million in delayed disbursements from the previous year’s budget. The budget increases operations grants to all state university by 1.0 percent each. For budget details see House Fiscal Agency <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/billanalysis/House/pdf/2007-HLA-1099-8.pdf">analysis</a>.
Passed in the Senate 37 to 0 (details)
