FY 2014-15 CORRECTIONS BUDGET S.B. 764 (CR-1): CONFERENCE REPORT
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$2,056,646,800 |
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Items Included by the Senate and House |
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1. Facilities and Central Records Adjustments. Governor increased funding for two on-going activities. One request is IT upgrades and enhancements, $500,000 GF/GP, and the other is central facility maintenance projects, $600,000 GF/GP. All rejected by the Senate and House. Conference did not include. |
0 |
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2. Expansion of Technology in Parole/Probation Staff. Governor, Senate, and House proposed use of on-going as well as an initial one-time funding to allow technology upgrades for parole/probation agents to spend more of their time in the field, $1,023,000 GF/GP. |
1,023,000 |
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3. Healthy Michigan Savings. Governor, Senate, and House recognized savings from expanded eligibility resulting from an estimated 80% of inmates and parolees attaining Medicaid eligibility for covered services outside of secure facilities. This would generate savings (all GF/GP) for off-site services. |
(19,080,800) |
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4. Final Neal et al. Settlement Payment. This is the final year of the Neal et al. lawsuit settlement payment which is $25,000,000 for the final period instead of the $20,000,000 in prior years. The payment has been moved to one-time from on-going in order to recognize the conclusion of the settlement funding. |
5,000,000 |
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5. Economic Adjustments. Senate and House included a negative $8,198,800 Gross and a negative $8,013,800 GF/GP for OPEB and $30,045,800 Gross and $29,226,000 GF/GP for other economic adjustments. |
21,847,000 |
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Conference Agreement on Items of Difference |
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6. Departmental Efficiencies Savings. Conference utilized departmental savings from efficiency of at the Northern, Southern, and Central administrative facilities as well as other facilities with an expected savings of $11,900,000 Gross and GF/GP. |
(11,900,000) |
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7. Healthcare Related Items. The Governor included a new treatment protocol for prisoners with Hepatitis C treatment at $4,900,000 GP/GP. Senate included $100 placeholder and House did not include. Conference agreed to $4,400,000 GF/GP. Governor and House added $1,482,300 Gross, $1,233,500 GF/GP for health care administration and training. Senate did not include. Conference concurred with House. |
5,633,500 |
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8. Deployment of Regionalization and Diversion Strategies. Governor and Senate expanded leased bed space from local county sheriff departments, $4,000,000 GF/GP and $449,000 for the utilization of local resources for the prosecution. House did not include. Conference agreed to $4,000,000 for leased beds and $300,000 for prosecution expenses. House proposed $449,000 for re-entry legal assistance. Governor and Senate did not include. Conference included $149,000. |
4,449,000 |
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9. Removal of Departmental Accounting Items and Other Adjustments. Conference removed one-time appropriation for custody staff training ~$9.0 million GF/GP, eliminated uncollected Restricted funds, $15,541,300 Gross, $0 GF/GP, Senate added an IDG to DHS of $3,000,000 Gross and GF/GP which Governor and House did not include. Conference included $1,000,000. Senate added $4,500,000 GF/GP for Goodwill flip the script program. Governor and House did not include. Conference agreed to $2,500,000 GF/GP. |
(23,096,800) |
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($16,125,100) |
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FY 2014-15 Conference Report Ongoing/One-Time Gross Appropriation............................. |
$2,040,521,700 |
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Amount Over/(Under) GF/GP Target: $0 |
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FY 2014-15 CORRECTIONS BUDGET BOILERPLATE HIGHLIGHTS
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Changes from FY 2013-14 Year-to-Date: |
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Items Included by the Senate and House |
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1. Definitions. Twenty definitions were eliminated from the bill, ranging from simple acronyms such as GED means "general educational development certificate", to broader definitions for concepts such as recidivism or cost per prisoner. Fifteen definitions remain in the bill with such terms as: administrative segregation, residential substance abuse treatment, and Medicaid benefit. One definition added was for MDHS meaning the Michigan Department of Human Services (Sec. 5-203). The Senate and House restored all of these cuts. |
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2. Deletions. Governor eliminated the majority of current-year boilerplate; there are approximately 53 sections or subsections eliminated which include: 206, 207, 212, 214, 219, 238, 239, 245, 304, 305, 402, 405, 407, 410(1 & 2), 411, 412, 413, 417, 418, 419, 420, 431, 434, 506, 601, 608, 611, 612, 615, 802, 806, 807, 809, 814, 816, 904, 907, 910, 911, 912, 913, 916, 925, 937, 939, 940, 942, 947, 1009, 1011, 1201, and 1202. Deletions include a variety of reporting requirements, statements of legislative intent, and guidance on certain programs. Senate and House restored most of these deletions. |
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3. Legacy Costs. Governor, Senate, and House added a new section which states the total legacy costs as well as the separately stated legacy pension and retiree health care costs. (Sec. 5-246) |
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4. Mental Health Diversion Council. Governor, Senate, and House added a new section which directs $1,000,000 of amount appropriated for the mental health pilot programs to be used in accordance with the directions of Mental Health Diversion Council. (Sec. 5-421) |
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Conference Agreement on Items of Difference |
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5. Revisions. Senate changed the span of control from 5 to 8 in the Central, Southern, and Northern administrative facilities. House change from 5 to 7. Conference concurred with Senate. (Sec. 5-239). Senate and House made separate changes to the administrative segregation language, to avoid risks of Federal consent decrees within MDOC facilities. Conference adopted compromise language. (Sec. 5-924 and Sec. 5-929) |
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6. Areas for Dedication of Financial Savings. Senate added language to dedicate savings in the Department's budget to early childhood education, K-12 education, higher education, and to local law enforcement entities through revenue sharing with the intent to reduce crime rates as well as roads. House did not include. Conference concurred with Senate. (Sec. 5-204) |
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7. Security Levels of Past ERD Prisoners. Senate adopted language for the Department to submit a report detailing the security levels of all past-ERD prisoners by October 1. House adopted separate language. Conference concurred with Senate. (Sec. 5-232) |
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8. Performance Measures. House included performance measure language to detail benchmarks to determine return on taxpayer investment. Governor and Senate did not include. Conference concurred with House. (Sec. 5-247) |
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9. LEAN Process for Past ERD Prisoners. Senate added language for zero-waste processing of prisoner programming to reduce the backlog in past-ERD prisoner population and allow for a temporary staff increase to clear the backlog through the recommendations of the LEAN process. House did not include. Conference included the Senate language. (Sec. 5-403 and Sec. 5-404) |
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10. Michigan Rehabilitation Services Interdepartmental Grant. Senate expanded the service potential of MRS by utilizing cross-department collaboration with the Swift-and-Sure program to reduce potential prisoner intake by using an alternative judicial process. House did not include. Conference changed the amount, but included Senate language. (Sec. 5-406) |
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11. Workforce Development Collaboration. Senate added on language requiring the Department to engage with state agencies and local entities to ensure that the vocational training and education opportunities in correctional facilities are high-quality, demand driven, locally receptive, and responsive to the needs of communities where the prisoners are expected to reside post release from correction facilities. House did not include. Conference concurred with Senate. (Sec. 5-409) |
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12. Goodwill Flip the Script. Conference added language that requires the Department to contract with a nonprofit entity to assist persons aged 16-29 with education and employment skills in an effort to keep them out of prison. (Sec. 5-437) |
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13. Correctional Facility Quality Assurance Report. Senate added language for a reporting requirement for the Department in which correctional facilities will be analyzed for infrastructure concerns. The Department shall report metrics associated with the all facilities and report on the condition in a report by October 1. House did not include. Conference adopted modified language. (Sec. 5-508) |
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14. Strategic Plan Reporting. Conference added language that requires the Department to report on strategies to decrease recidivism rate, increase rehabilitative function of facilities, and ensure prisoner readiness to re-enter society after incarceration. (Sec. 5-511) |
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15. Standardization of Medical Release Form. Conference added language that requires the Department to create a standard medical release form which will allow a family member to access medical records of those incarcerated. (Sec. 5-803) |
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16. Health Care Coverage for Dependents. Conference added language that requires Department to determine eligibility of prisoners for dependent health care coverage. (Sec. 5-805) |
Date Completed: 6-6-14 Fiscal Analyst: John Maxwell
This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.