2007 Senate Bill 184 ↩

House Roll Call 31: Passed

To require the Office of the State Budget to report to the legislature by June 1 each year whether any state departments are spending at a rate that makes it likely they will exceed the amount appropriated for them during current fiscal year (which ends on Sept. 30.) Note: Senate Bill 166, which appropriates extra money for three state departments that overspent their budgets in 2006, was originally tie-barred to this bill, meaning it could not become law unless this bill also does. The Democratic majority in the House approved removing the tie-bar, and passed it with immediate effect following some <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=223298">procedural maneuvering</a>. The day after that vote they discharged this bill without prior committee action and passed it anyway.