MichiganHB 41612025-2026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

Appropriations: omnibus; appropriations for multiple departments and branches for October 1 to 8, 2025; provide for. Creates appropriation act. Last Action: assigned PA 14'25 with immediate effect

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50 provisions identified: 29 benefits, 13 costs, 8 mixed.

Eight days of state operating funds

The law provides about $1.569 billion to keep Michigan government running from October 1–8, 2025. This includes $272.3499 million from the state's general fund. The interim budget supports activities authorized for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025. Its funding and program rules serve as a short-term bridge, not a full-year budget. Interim authority ends when full-year budgets become law, and interim obligations count toward their matching full-year spending lines.

Medicaid patients protected from leftover bills

When another payment source is involved, providers must accept Medicaid payment as full payment, except for approved Medicaid copayments. They cannot bill the patient, or someone acting for the patient, for a leftover charge. This rule also covers providers not enrolled in Medicaid. Combined payments cannot exceed the Medicaid-only amount. For hospital care involving Medicaid and only Medicare Part B, reimbursement must equal that amount, including capital payments.

Monthly support payments for approved children

The interim budget requires Family Support Subsidy payments of $300.36 per month for each approved child. Payments go to the child's parent or legal guardian. A community mental health services program must approve the child.

Medicaid applicants must prove residency status

Before approving Medicaid, the state health department must obtain proof of U.S. citizenship or lawful U.S. residence. It must also obtain proof that the applicant lives in Michigan. These checks are conditions of approval.

Child care income and payment rules

The Child Development and Care Program's entry income limit cannot exceed 200% of federal poverty guidelines. Families must also meet the program's other eligibility requirements. Provider payment rates stay at the levels in the 2024–2025 program handbook. The state pays providers based on eligible children's enrollment, rather than attendance, using a method the department sets. These payment rules cover centers, group homes, registered family homes, and license-exempt providers.

Fostering Futures scholarships receive spending authority

The law makes Fostering Futures Scholarship Trust Fund money available for payments to students eligible under that program's law. Available money includes gifts and donations. Treasury can issue the payments, but this provision sets no total funding or individual award amount.

Tax refunds and credits stay funded

The law sets aside enough tax revenue to pay refundable credits, tax refunds, and related interest already required by law. It does not change who qualifies or how payments are calculated.

Court funding supports defense and judges

The Michigan Indigent Defense Commission can receive and spend federal Byrne grants awarded through the State Police. It can also use federal Justice Department grants for indigent defense. The state general fund covers any shortfall in judges' pay from the court fee fund. That shortfall is calculated after the trial court reimbursement appropriation is considered. No funding amounts are stated.

Funding supports wildfire and conservation work

The natural resources department can use federal money for wildfire and hazard responses required by a federal compact. It must notify the State Budget Office when more spending authority is needed. The department can also fund local governments, colleges, and nonprofits through grants or contracts for natural-resource work. Covered work includes research, wildlife, fisheries, forests, and invasive-species control. No funding amounts are stated.

State resources support disaster response

After the governor declares an emergency or disaster, the emergency director can use appropriated funds and call on state resources. This authority supports protection of life, property, health, and safety in the declared area. State police can also accept local, private, state, and federal funds for emergency training, preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation. Federal money received and spent under that training and preparedness authority cannot exceed $9.6 million.

License applicants receive organ donor information

Organ donor program money must fund pamphlets distributed with driver licenses and state identification cards. Each pamphlet must explain donation, encourage donor registration, and include a Gift of Life return form with postage. The Department of State can accept public or private campaign funding. Sources covering all or a substantial share of the campaign must receive sponsorship credit.

Medicaid penalties support long-term care

The state health department can receive and spend penalties collected for violations of Medicaid certification rules. Money received increases spending authority in the state's long-term care accounts. The provision sets no dollar amount.

Minimum payments for foster care providers

Providers of general foster care, independent living, and trial reunification services receive an administrative rate of at least $60.20. The supplied provision does not state the period that rate covers. The state must also pay 100% of the applicable administrative rate for each newly referred foster care case. These are provider payments, not direct checks to foster youth or families.

Payment rules support foster youth housing

Family foster care payments cannot fall below the approved rate for each youth's age. The law also requires statewide daily rates for staff-supported and host-home housing in the independent living plus program. That program serves foster youth ages 16 through 19 whose assessed needs make general independent living care unsuitable at first. Housing rates are based on proposals submitted through a pricing request; no dollar amounts are stated.

Schools can receive Medicaid service funding

The state health department can seek federal Medicaid reimbursement for eligible services provided in Michigan schools. Participating districts receive money under state-local agreements that set each side's share, subject to federal and state law. Funds can also support related department work and offset state general fund Medicaid costs. No funding amount is specified.

Land bank revenues support property work

The State Land Bank Authority can spend its revenues on purposes allowed by the Land Bank Fast Track Act. These include buying, leasing, managing, repairing, maintaining, and demolishing property. Revenues can also cover debt service and title-related costs. The authority can partner with local land banks. No funding amount is specified.

Bottle deposit dealers receive required payments

The law funds Treasury's required bottle deposit fund payments to dealers. Existing bottle deposit law determines who receives the money and how payments work. This provision states no amount and does not change those payment rules.

Brand royalties fund Michigan tourism marketing

Travel Michigan can use private licensing and royalty revenue from Pure Michigan and other copyrighted slogans and images for tourism marketing. This includes royalties from merchandise sales. The money is available when Treasury receives it. No funding amount is stated.

Convention facility revenues fund required distributions

Convention Facility Development Fund revenue is available for distributions required under the existing state convention facility law. That law sets the recipients and distribution rules. This provision states no amount and does not create direct household payments.

Local governments get online auction services

The state management department must provide consolidated online auction services through state contractors for all local governments. The law does not state service fees, savings, or a funding amount.

Local governments receive interim funding

For October 1–8, 2025, the law provides $6.9489 million for city, village, and township revenue sharing. It also provides $22.3611 million in constitutional revenue sharing, $6.0648 million for counties, and $52,100 for financially distressed local governments. Heavy equipment rental tax reimbursement and Local Government Reimbursement Fund revenues are available for distribution under existing laws. Extra federal pass-through funds for local institutions and governments are available for their intended purposes without extra state matching money. The department must report those extra funds' amount and source within 10 business days of receipt.

Lottery funding covers operations and retailers

State Lottery Fund revenue is available for costs necessary and directly related to lottery games and bingo activities. Covered costs include required vendor commissions, instant tickets for resale, and online systems. The money also covers retailer incentive and bonus payments. No total spending or individual payment amount is stated.

Specialty plate proceeds reach designated recipients

Collector and fundraising license plate revenue is available for distribution when received. It goes to the university or public or private agency overseeing the related state-sponsored goal. The law states no amount and does not create a direct household payment.

Funds cover financial firm wind-down costs

The insurance and financial services department can use money collected from specified mortgage-business conservatorships and insurance-company liquidations. That money pays expenses necessary for required services. Funds become available when Treasury receives them. No spending amount or direct household payment is specified.

Counties and tribes get child welfare funding

Counties receiving child care fund reimbursements get a monthly administrative payment equal to 10% of total monthly gross spending. They do not need to document spending covered by that payment under the cited state law. The health department must also allocate $3.5 million to counties and tribal governments receiving child care fund reimbursements. Shares follow the same proportions as county indirect-cost allotments. These payments go to governments, not directly to families.

Medicaid pharmacy and vaccine payment rates

Fee-for-service Medicaid pays pharmacy dispensing fees capped at the lower of the submitted fee or the applicable listed rate. The rate for a medication listed on Michigan's pharmaceutical products list is $20.02. For drugs not listed as specialty medications, rates are $10.80 if preferred, $10.64 if unlisted, and $9 if nonpreferred. Medicaid also maintains a $23.03 payment for administering an injectable or oral vaccine. These payments go to providers, not patients.

Funding supports job training and equipment

The interim budget provides $4.6 million for community college skilled trades equipment from October 1–8, 2025. It also makes unused, unrestricted federal workforce funds and prior-year trade adjustment assistance funds available for their original purposes. The labor department can spend private grants for purposes allowed by each agreement and state and federal law. It must report each private grant's source, purpose, and amount to designated state offices within 10 days.

Rare isotope research receives interim funding

The law provides $7.3 million for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams for October 1–8, 2025. The money funds the research facility, not direct household payments.

Airport parking tax distributions stay funded

The law makes airport parking tax revenue available for distribution to recipients designated by the Airport Parking Tax Act. Distributions must follow that act's existing allocation rules. This provision does not change the tax rate or state a distribution amount.

Business and redevelopment payments receive funding

The law funds Good Jobs for Michigan payments to authorized businesses using tax revenues assigned under written program agreements. It also funds authorized program administrative costs. Separately, it provides an amount equal to tax revenues due under approved transformational brownfield redevelopment plans. No payment totals are stated, and these provisions do not change the agreements or approved plans.

Tobacco and marijuana revenues keep flowing

The law funds tobacco-tax distributions related to a county with more than 1.7 million people, using the latest federal decennial census. It also makes medical marijuana licensing revenue and adult-use marijuana revenue available for distribution. Existing laws set the recipients and distribution rules. These provisions state no amounts and do not change those rules.

Capitol parking and offices carry charges

The Capitol Commission can charge state employees and the public to use designated legislative parking facilities. Parking revenue is available when received and must be allocated by the commission. The Senate can also charge rent and utilities for the Binsfeld Office Building. Those receipts pay for renovation, operation, and upkeep. No rates are stated.

Creditors pay fees for treasury garnishments

A plaintiff pays $6 to serve a writ of garnishment on the Michigan State Treasurer. The fee is $5 when filed electronically to seek an individual income tax refund or credit.

Historic preservation fees fund requested services

State historic preservation programs can spend fees collected for document copies, services, and applications when received. The money must cover expenses needed to provide those services. People requesting covered services may pay fees, but the law states no amounts.

State documents and custom lists carry charges

The licensing department must sell listed documents, including manuals and hearing transcripts, for no more than production and distribution costs. The labor department can sell its covered documents under the same cost limit. The licensing and insurance departments can charge reasonable fees for customized lists of nonconfidential information. Licensing department lists must contain information not otherwise available. Document and list revenues support the covered services, and specified licensing publication funds cover publication and distribution expenses; no prices are stated.

Medicaid patients face service copayments

Medicaid recipients owe copayments unless federal or state law prohibits them. Charges are $2 per physician office visit, $3 per emergency room visit, and $2 per outpatient hospital visit. The first inpatient hospital day costs $50. Prescriptions cost $1 for generic or preferred drugs and $3 for nonpreferred brand-name drugs. Dental, foot care, and vision services also carry copayments, but the supplied provision does not state their amounts.

State training events can charge fees

Michigan's licensing and labor departments can charge registration fees for informational, training, and special events they sponsor. Events must relate to the sponsoring department's work. Fees must reflect sponsorship costs, and receipts are available to pay those costs. The law sets no fee amount.

Emergency radio subscribers must pay fees

All subscribers to Michigan's public safety communications system must pay reasonable access and maintenance fees. The fees go into the system's dedicated fees fund. All money received under this provision must support and maintain the system. No fee amounts are stated.

Counties face health department withdrawal penalties

The state can penalize a local health department when its county ends a shared health department arrangement after October 1. The county must also request dissolution of its local health department for the penalty to apply. The charge comes from operational accounts. It cannot exceed 6.25% of the department's essential local public health services funding.

Antenna installers must follow local zoning

Entities placing antennas at sites covered by the antenna site management project must follow local zoning codes. They must also follow the applicable local-government approval processes.

Bridge project spending requires legal approval

The law bars use of its appropriated funds for the Gordie Howe International Crossing or a successor project. The ban covers staff, consultants, development, financing, construction, operation, and implementation. The restriction does not apply if project approval is enacted into law.

Hospitals and schools pay fire review fees

The fire services bureau can spend its appropriation only if it charges the required inspection and plan-review fees. Hospital operation and maintenance inspections cost $8 per bed. Hospital and school project reviews and construction inspections have a $155 minimum for projects costing $101,000 or less. Larger projects use graduated rates of $1.60, $1.30, and $1.10 per $1,000; the supplied text does not identify every tier boundary. Projects over $10 million use the $1.10 rate, and the maximum fee is $60,000.

State land transactions can carry fees

The natural resources department can charge application and transaction fees for authorized sales or exchanges of state land interests. The director sets fees to recover service costs under the governing land law. The department can also charge a standard percentage to land acquisition projects funded in the current or earlier fiscal years. Those project charges must recover actual costs. No fee amounts or percentages are stated.

State card charges capped at cost

The Department of State can charge credit- and debit-card users for card-company and bank processing fees. Charges can be a percentage, a flat transaction amount, or both, scaled to the transaction amount. The assessment cannot exceed the costs billed to the department.

Assessor training comes with capped fees

Treasury must operate a property assessor certification and training program with courses in assessment administration. Participants can be charged up to $50 per exam and $175 for certification. An additional fee covering program expenses can also apply.

Adoption agencies get revised payment rules

Contracted, licensed adoption agencies serving foster youth get a new payment system based on average adoption timing and case traits. For cases accepted before that system starts, the law maintains the contracted-rate increase and adds $23 daily per youth. Daily payments run from case acceptance until the adoption petition is accepted or 150 days, whichever comes first. They are separate from outcome payments and cannot reduce placement or finalization payments. The money goes to agencies, not families.

Restricted funds cover carbon credit costs

The natural resources department can receive and spend restricted state money to pay vendors administering carbon offset credit sales. This supports sales administration while using restricted funds for vendor costs. The provision sets no spending amount and creates no direct household payment.

Retirement funds can face investment fees

Treasury's investment bureau can charge investment service fees against applicable retirement funds. The fees reduce resources in the charged funds. Revenue can cover specified operating expenses and grants to the civil service commission and state employees' retirement funds. No fee amount or individual pension change is stated.

Mental health funding duties and safeguards

Prepaid inpatient health plans must supply eligible internal local funds toward the state match for higher Medicaid payment rates. They cannot use state non-Medicaid mental health funds or the state's existing Medicaid matching share. Counties owing mental health matching funds must pay equal installments at least quarterly, starting by October 1. Medicaid health plan and specialty plan rates need annual certification that they cover expected costs, with approvals sent to state offices by October 1. Later state Medicaid policy bulletins cannot materially affect certified rates.

Treasury services carry cost-based charges

Treasury can provide income tax administration to more cities that sign service agreements; their local funds pay staffing and administration. Treasury deducts actual collection costs from receipts collected for state entities and contracted cities, excluding unrestricted general fund collections. These fees fund a restricted collection-cost account, and excess fees must be returned periodically to the source accounts. Authorized audit charges cannot exceed actual audit costs. Contract audit charges go into a revolving audit fund.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

Ann Bollin
Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 193 • No: 55

House vote • 10/1/2025

roll call

Yes: 103 • No: 4 • Other: 3

Senate vote • 10/1/2025

PASSED; GIVEN IMMEDIATE EFFECT

Yes: 31 • No: 2 • Other: 4

House vote • 3/6/2025

passed; given immediate effect

Yes: 59 • No: 49 • Other: 2

Actions Timeline

assigned PA 14'25 with immediate effect
10/1/2025House
filed with Secretary of State 10/01/2025 04:07 AM
10/1/2025House
approved by the Governor 10/01/2025 03:50 AM
10/1/2025House
presented to the Governor 10/01/2025 03:26 AM
10/1/2025House
bill ordered enrolled
10/1/2025House
title amendment agreed to
10/1/2025House
roll call Roll Call #235 Yeas 103 Nays 4 Excused 0 Not Voting 3
10/1/2025House
Senate substitute (S-1) concurred in
10/1/2025House
rule suspended
10/1/2025House
laid over one day under the rules
10/1/2025House
returned from Senate with substitute (S-1) with immediate effect and title amendment
10/1/2025House
TITLE AMENDED
10/1/2025Senate
PASSED; GIVEN IMMEDIATE EFFECT ROLL CALL # 254 YEAS 31 NAYS 2 EXCUSED 2 NOT VOTING 2
10/1/2025Senate
PLACED ON IMMEDIATE PASSAGE
10/1/2025Senate
RULES SUSPENDED
10/1/2025Senate
PLACED ON ORDER OF THIRD READING WITH SUBSTITUTE (S-1)
10/1/2025Senate
SUBSTITUTE (S-1) CONCURRED IN
10/1/2025Senate
REPORTED BY COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE FAVORABLY WITH SUBSTITUTE (S-1)
10/1/2025Senate
RULES SUSPENDED FOR IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION
9/30/2025Senate
PLACED ON ORDER OF GENERAL ORDERS
9/30/2025Senate
DISCHARGE COMMITTEE APPROVED
9/30/2025Senate
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
3/12/2025Senate
PASSED BY HOUSE WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT
3/12/2025House
transmitted
3/6/2025House
title amended
3/6/2025House

Bill Text

As Passed by the House
10/1/2025
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As Passed by the Senate
10/1/2025
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House Concurred
10/1/2025
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Public Act
10/1/2025
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Introduced
2/26/2025
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