| Changes from FY 2010-11 Year-to-Date: | |
| Items Included by the Senate and House | |
| 1. Elimination of Animal Feed Nutritional Analysis. The Governor, Senate, and House recommended that the department no longer monitor feed nutrition, but would continue all other feed safety activities. This would save $250,000 GF/GP annually. | (250,000) |
| 2. Animal Shelter Inspection Program Shift to Outreach. The Governor, Senate, and House reduced funding for the inspection program, and required a focus on education and outreach, saving $100,000 GF/GP. | (100,000) |
| 3. Adjustments for Actual Revenue Received. The Governor, Senate, and House reduced fund sources to reflect the expected receipt of revenues from private ($86,400), Federal ($898,500), and restricted ($1,403,100) funds. | (2,388,000) |
| 4. Administrative Reductions and Other Adjustments. The Governor, Senate, and House reduced funding for the lab ($427,000 GF/GP), other units ($104,700 GF/GP), and Capital Outlay ($1.0 million restricted) and shifted $53,400 from restricted to GF/GP. | (1,531,700) |
| 5. Elimination of Mackinac Bridge Bovine TB Inspections. The Governor, Senate, and House reduced bovine TB inspections, saving $332,000 GF/GP. | (332,000) |
| 6. Early Retirement GF/GP Savings from FY11. | (1,006,200) |
| 7. Economic Adjustments. The Governor, Senate, and House included $1,590,600 Gross and $786,100 GF/GP. For DIT, a total of $20,600 Gross and $18,300 GF/GP. | 1,611,200 |
| Conference Agreement on Items of Difference | |
| 8. Dairy Farm Inspection Shift to Industry. The Governor and House provided for the transfer of on-site dairy farm inspection to industry, saving 6.0 FTEs and $600,000 GF/GP. Conference rejected the plan. | 0 |
| 9. Nursery Stock Inspection Shift to Industry. The Governor and House transferred intrastate nursery stock inspection to industry, saving 6.0 FTEs and $500,000 GF/GP. Conference restored $300,000. | (200,000) |
| 10. Intercounty Drain District Assessment. The Governor recommended a new assessment on intercounty drain districts to pay for department's assistance. New revenue would add $117,700 to the program and supplant $432,300 in GF/GP (a total of $550,000 restricted). | (7,300) |
| 11. Grain Inspection Program Fee Increase. The Governor and Senate provided for increased fees charged for grain dealer regulation to offset a total of $300,000 GF/GP. Conference rejected plan. | 0 |
| 12. Rural Development. The Conference added $125,000 to support rural development. | 125,000 |
| Total Changes | ($4,229,000) |
| FY 2011-12 Conference Report Gross Appropriation | $72,219,300 |
| Changes from FY 2010-11 Year to Date: |
| Conference Agreement on Items of Difference |
| 1. Hiring Freeze - House. Not Included |
| 2. Use of Internet Reports - House. (Sec. 208)
3. Deprived and Depressed Business Outreach - House. Not included. 4. IT User Charges - House. (Sec. 214) 5. Out-of-state Travel Guidelines - House. Not included. 6. Prohibits Department Disciplinary Action Against Staff for Legislative Communication - House. (Sec. 215) 7. Requires Retention of Records - House. (Sec. 212) 8. Attorney General Responsibilities - House. Not included. 9. Requires Year-end GF/GP Lapse Report - House. (Sec. 228) 10. Requires Restricted Fund Report - House. (Sec. 229) 11. Requires Monitoring of Restaurant Licensing Standards - Senate. Not included. 12. Requires Minimum Expenditure of $150,000 on Food Safety Education - House. Not included. 13. Provides for Reimbursement to Department of Natural Resources for TB Monitoring - Senate. (Sec. 450) 14. Applications for TB Funding - Senate. Not included. 15. Requires Grant Notification to Legislature - House. (Sec. 302) 16. Exempts TB Staff from Hiring Freeze - Senate. Not included. 17. Application for Migrant Housing Funds - Senate. Not included. 18. Environmental Stewardship. Requires support for agriculture pollution prevention - House. (Sec. 601) 19. Requires Collaboration between Agriculture Development and Strategic Fund - Senate. Not included. 20. Specifies Funds to be used for Purchase of Development Rights - House. Not included. 21. Appropriations for FY 2012-13 Guidelines - Senate. (Sec. 1201) |