Insider Intelligence

This week conference committees began reporting budgets for the upcoming fiscal year.  In addition to committee members coming to agreement on differences between the House and Senate versions of each budget, many budgets saw their overall funding decreased due to the lower than projected state revenue.  “Budgets were cut from original projections due to lower […]

The first conference committee met on Thursday and unanimously approved the Community Colleges budget for the 2016-2017 Fiscal Year.  The conference committee approved increasing funding by an average 1.4%, which is 1.0% lower than Governor Rick Snyder called for in his budget announcement in February.  The additional funding will vary amongst colleges, ranging from 1.1% […]

This week, the House and Senate began naming members to serve on the conference committees for each of the budgets for the upcoming 2016-2017 Fiscal Year.  Both chambers have passed their own versions of the budgets and will now come together to work through their points of differences to reach an agreement.  Conference committees consist […]

Today, the biannual Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference was held in Lansing.  State Treasurer Nick Khouri, Senate Fiscal Agency Director Ellen Jeffries, and House Fiscal Agency Director Mary Ann Cleary came together to hear testimony and reach a consensus on the numbers that will be used to complete the state budget for the 2016-2017 Fiscal Year.  […]

This week, the House passed both omnibus budgets appropriating funds for the upcoming 2016-2017 Fiscal Year.  The omnibus budget providing funding to K-12 schools, community colleges, and universities totals $16.17 billion.  The House’s increase to funding for universities is below the level Governor Rick Snyder recommended.  The Governor proposed increasing funding to get all universities […]

This week, the Senate Appropriations Committee reported a bill providing a $144 million appropriation to aid the City of Flint.  The funds would be spread throughout seven departments and help the city deal with the ongoing water crisis.  The bill provides funds for items such as nutrition programs, food banks, retaining the Detroit water connection, […]

This week, the House Appropriations Committee reported the omnibus budget providing funding for state departments in the upcoming fiscal year.  Prior to reporting the budget the committee made a few changes to the budget, including additional funds for the heat and eat program, $3 million to the First Responder Presumed Coverage Fund, and funding a […]

This week, several of the budget bills for the upcoming 2016-2017 Fiscal Year were reported from the Appropriations Committees.  All appropriations budgets have been reported from their subcommittees and are either waiting consideration from the full Appropriations Committees or have been reported to the House or Senate floor for consideration.  One major issues that arose […]