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The budget process officially began in January with the biannual Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference.  The following the month, Governor Rick Snyder presented his executive budget recommendations before a joint House and Senate Appropriations Committee.  Since that time, the House and Senate have been busy introducing their budgets and Appropriations Subcommittees have been holding hearings to […]

This week, House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees reported budgets within their purvey to the full Appropriations Committees.  In their current forms, the House and Senate budgets spend significantly less than Governor Snyder’s executive recommendations.  Most of the budgets were completed by the subcommittees this week, except for the Senate’s budgets for Corrections, General Government, Health […]

This week, the first budget was reported by an Appropriations Subcommittee, to the full Appropriations Committee.  The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Community Colleges reported their recommendations for the upcoming 2017-2018 Fiscal Year.  Most significantly, when Governor Rick Snyder presented his executive budget recommendations in February, he did not include an increase to community college operations […]

Today, before a joint House and Senate Appropriations Committee, Governor Rick Snyder, Lt. Governor Brian Calley, and the new State Budget Director Al Pscholka presented the executive budget recommendations for the 2017-2018 Fiscal Year.  The overall budget recommendation totals $56.3 billion, an increase of 2.5% from the prior fiscal year’s budget.  Within the budget, 74% […]

On Thursday, January 12, the biannual Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference was held in Lansing.  The conference included members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, the directors of the House and Senate Fiscal Agencies, the State Treasurer, Nick Khouri, and the incoming State Budget Director, Al Pscholka.  After hearing testimony from the Research Seminar on […]

This week, Speaker-elect Tom Leonard (R-DeWitt Township) named Representative Laura Cox (R-Livonia) as House Appropriations Committee Chair for the upcoming legislative term.  “Congratulations to Representative Cox!  During her first term in office she’s been a thoughtful, deliberate, knowledgeable legislator.  She will bring those same qualities, and a diverse professional background, to the appropriations process while […]

Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit, a non-profit organization providing employment and education opportunities to Metro Detroiters, sought to expand its recycling program by opening jobs to the prison diversion and job training program. MLC’s work enabled Goodwill to build meaningful relationships with state legislators and staffers who are now open to discussions on the organization’s […]

This week, the Michigan Supreme Court denied a request by Governor Rick Snyder to issue an opinion on state funding for private schools.  In the 2016-2017 Fiscal Year budget, there was an appropriation of $2.5 million to cover the costs for private schools to comply with state mandates placed on all K-12 schools.  After signing […]