FY 2000-01 CAREER DEVELOPMENT BUDGET - H.B. 5274 (S-1): FLOOR ANALYSIS

House Bill 5274 (S-1, as reported)

Committee: Appropriations

FY 1999-2000 Year-to-Date Gross Appropriation 515,904,700
Changes from FY 1999-2000 Year-to-Date:
1. Unclassified Salaries. The Governor, House, and Senate recommend a 2% increase for unclassified salaries. 10,700
2. Michigan Community Service Commission. The Governor and House recommend a GF/GP increase for this line for 3 new positions and an increase in rent. The Senate added $1,000,000 in tobacco funds for the Boys and Girls Club of Michigan. 1,434,000
3. Centers for Independent Living. The Governor recommended a $500,000 GF/GP increase. The House added an additional $1,200,000 GF/GP to this line item. The Senate added $305,000 above the Governor. 805,000
4. Personal Assistance Services. The Senate increased this line. 400,000
5. Adult Education. Pursuant to Executive Order 1999-12 the administration of the adult, technical, and vocational education programs and the Federal grant funds were transferred from the Department of Education. The House and Senate concurred 68,207,600
6. Economic Development Job Training Administrative Staff. The Governor, House, and Senate recommend transferring the 6 FTE's back from the Strategic Fund Agency. 530,000
7. One Stop Service Centers. The House and Senate recommended a GF/GP increase to the Job Training Programs Subgrantees to support the One Stop Service Centers. 1,500,000
8. Adult Basic Education Grants. The House recommends a $5,000,000 GF/GP increase for this line item. The Senate did not include this funding. 0
9. Focus Hope. The House increased this line item by $500,000 GF/GP to reflect the FY 1999-2000 supplemental funding. The Senate increased by $25,000 over the House. 525,000
10. Council of Michigan Foundation. The Governor recommended placing the $6,000,000 boilerplate appropriation into a line item. The House increased this line by $14,000,000 to provide funding for Community Youth Tobacco Prevention and Smoking Cessation Programs. The Senate increased by $13,000,000 above the Governor. 19,000,000
11. Michigan Technical Education Centers. The House and Senate recommend the elimination of this one time tobacco funding. (75,000,000)
12. Commission on Spanish Speaking Affairs. Pursuant to E.O. 2000-5, 2.0 FTEs and $211,300 GF/GP were transferred from Civil Rights. The Senate added 2.0 FTEs and $100,000 GF/GP. 311,300
13. Medicaid Buy-In For the Working Disabled. The Senate added this new line item conditioned upon the passage of S.B. 881. 495,000
14. Welfare to Work. The Senate increased TANF funding for 3 specific organizations. 3,000,000
15. Economic Adjustments. 2,779,600
16. Other Changes. The Governor, House, and Senate recommend various technical adjustment to account for funding changes in Federal, restricted, and local fund sources. 2,587,800
17. Comparison to Governor's Recommendation. The Senate Bill is $20,536,300 Gross and $3,536,300 GF/GP over the Governor's Recommendation.
Total Changes $26,586,000
FY 2000-01 Senate Appropriations Committee Gross Appropriation $542,490,700
FY 2000-01 CAREER DEVELOPMENT BUDGET - BOILERPLATE HIGHLIGHTS
Changes from FY 1999-2000 Year to Date:
1. Welfare-to-Work. The Governor recommended adding language stating that the Work First Program not be construed to be an entitlement to services and deleting the section requiring the Department to work with FIA to establish guidelines for post-employment training and submit them to the Appropriations Committees. The House and Senate reinstated this language and added new language allowing participants enrolled in a vocational program for less than 6 months to enroll in one additional program for a combined period of not more than 6 months. (Sec. 305) The Senate added 3 additional sections providing funding to Starfish Family Services ($2,250,000); Michigan Organizing Program in Muskegon ($150,000); and the Warren Conner Development Coalition ($600,000). (Sec. 305a, 305b, 305c)
2. Pre-College Programs in the Engineering and the Sciences. The House and Senate added new language requiring the Department to provide a report on this program including drop-out rates, grade point averages, and enrollment data. (Sec. 310)
3. Vocational Rehabilitation Facilities. The House added new language stating legislative intent that the local match for facilities increase from 21.3% to 27% for FY 2001-2002. The Senate retained the current year language. (Sec 303)
4. Employment Service Agency. The Governor recommended deleting language requiring the department to have at least 1 veteran's outreach specialist at each Michigan Works! office. The House and Senate reinstated this language and added new language requiring the department to continue to make the appropriate placement of disabled veterans a priority. (Sec. 312)
5. Enhanced Technical Vocational Training for Welfare Recipients. The Governor, House, and Senate recommended deleting this language.
6. Michigan Council of Foundations. The House added language requiring this funding be distributed with $10,000,000 being allocated for youth and senior needs and the other $10,000,000 being allocated to support community youth tobacco prevention and smoking cessation programs. The Senate reduced amount for Health and Senior needs to $9,000,000. (Sec. 315)
7. Independent Living Centers. The Governor, House and Senate recommended deleting language requiring that a portion of the funding be distributed to the Center in Marquette county. The Senate recommended additional data on the number of persons served be included in the report. (Sec. 304)
8. Work First Report. The Governor, House and Senate added new language that requires the Department to continue the study on former work first participants whose cases closed in 1999 and 2000. (Sec. 311)
9. Michigan Works! Centers. The House and Senate recommends adding new language requiring the department to allocate sufficient funding to these centers to allow them to remain operational. (Sec. 309)
10. King-Chavez-Parks Initiative. The House included all of the boilerplate from the Higher Education budget regarding this program and added new language requiring the Department to report employment outcomes for the Future Faculty Program. The Senate maintained language on Future Faculty Report but did not include Higher Education language. (Sec. 320)
11. Adult Basic Education. The House added new language requiring that the GF/GP funding appropriated in part 1 be distributed in the form of grants to adult education providers. The House also added intent language that the administration staff for adult education ensure that at least $80,000,000 in the program be distributed through the same process as outlined in the School Aid Act, and the remaining $20,000,000 be distributed through any alternative process. The Senate did not include new grant language but concurred with intent language. (Sec. 321)
12. Summer Youth Employment Initiative. The House added new language allowing the Department, upon request, to provide support to the FIA in developing and monitoring this initiative. The Senate did not include this language.
13. Boys & Girls Club. The Senate added new language requiring the $1,000,000 tobacco funding be distributed to the Michigan area Boys and Girls Club of America. (Sec. 314)
14. Medicaid Buy-In for the Working Disabled. The Senate added new language prohibiting the expenditure of funds appropriated for this program unless S.B. 881 is enacted into law. (Sec. 322)


Date Completed: 5-18-00 - Fiscal Analyst: M. Tyszkiewicz