FY 2005-06 STATE POLICE BUDGET S.B. 280 (S-2): SENATE-PASSED






Senate Bill 280 (S-2 as passed by the Senate)
Committee: Appropriations

FY 2004-05 Year-to-Date Gross Appropriation $477,229,000
Changes from FY 2004-05 Year-to-Date:
  1. Traffic Services. The Senate added restricted revenue for alcohol detection breath kits. 120,000
2. School Bus Inspections. The Senate continued funding for State School Bus Inspections. 0
3. Post Closures. The Senate concurred with the Governor on the closure of the Groveland, Grand Haven and Iron River MSP Posts. (1,050,000)
4. Fire Investigation. The Senate recommends the continuance of an Arson Investigation Unit consisting of 11.0 FTE within the Criminal Investigation Unit. (2,081,000)
5. Michigan Justice Training Grants. The Senate increased from $9,054,700 to $10,247,600. 1,169,300
6. Federal Grant Increases. The includes additional Federal grant monies, including $60.0 million for Homeland Security, $1.7 million for Motor Carrier Border grants, $1.0 million for Michigan Crash data collection, and $717,800 for drunk driving reduction efforts. 63,453,700
7. Fund Shifts from GF/GP to Existing Restricted Revenue. The Senate recommends a shift from GF/GP to existing restricted sources of $450,000 for Forensic Sciences, $387,000 for At-post Troopers and $849,300 for MCOLES administration. 0
8. Fund Shifts from GF/GP to New Restricted Revenue. The Senate includes a shift from GF/GP to new restricted (fee) source of $200,000 for the Law Enforcement Information Network and $6.5 million in revenue from the Highway Safety Fund surcharge for the At-post Troopers line. 0
9. Program Increases from Recently Adjusted Fees. The Senate includes increases in restricted revenues due to a recent increase in LEIN operation fees totaling $563,000 and a newly enacted fee for sex offender's registrants totaling $250,000. 813,000
10. Operational Reductions. The Senate includes GF/GP operational savings in the form of vacant position eliminations from Criminal Investigations ($1.7 million), Criminal Justice Information Center Division ($170,100), Human Resources ($171,700), Management Services ($87,700), Training Administration (170,100) and Uniform Services ($822,400). (3,095,800)
11. Other Savings. The Senate includes savings in Training Administration of $250,000, Fleet Leasing savings of $200,000, savings from sale of two aircraft of $400,000, savings from DROP of $1,500,000, HR Optimization savings of $24,000, a DIT rate reduction of $594,800, an IDG reduction to Traffic Safety of $21,500, additional administrative savings of $2,254,600 and an additional DIT reduction of $353,800 GF/GP. (5,598,700)
12. Adjustments. An adjustment is made for E.O. 2005-5 which had reductions of $3,455,000 and supplemental appropriations, P.A. 11 of 2005, which had increases of $4,838,100. (1,383,100)
13. Economic Adjustments. Restores FY 2004-05 employee concessions and applies standard economic adjustments to all but employee-related FY 2005-06 salary increases. The Senate eliminated increases funded by the State Trunkline Fund ($440,600) and reduced economic increases to school bus inspections by $46,700. 13,998,700
14. Comparison to Governor's Recommendation. The Senate bill is $4,193,400 GF/GP below the Governor's recommendation.
Total Changes $66,346,100
  FY 2005-06 Senate Gross Appropriation $543,575,100
FY 2004-05 STATE POLICE BUDGET BOILERPLATE HIGHLIGHTS

Changes from FY 2004-05 Year to Date:
AMENDED BOILERPLATE SECTION
  1. Post Closure. The Senate added language to a section requiring a 180 day legislative notice for plans to close or consolidate a Post to include an impact study with that notification. (Sec. 219)
  NEW BOILERPLATE SECTIONS
  2. Employee Discipline. The Senate added language which would require the department not to take disciplinary action against an employee for communicating with a member of the legislature or his or her staff. (Sec. 213)
3. Homeland Security. The Senate added language which requires the Department to make an effort to ensure the highest percentage possible of Federal homeland security grants goes to first responders and that any such grant awarded to the City of Detroit shall not be used to supplant city general funds already in place in support of first responder responsibilities. (Sec. 803)

Date Completed: 6-15-05 . Fiscal Analyst: Bruce Baker Bill Analysis @ http://www.senate.michigan.gov/sfa June 16, 2005 This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations. histp_sp.doc