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Senate passes supplemental appropriations bill after rejecting a series of floor amendments
Summary
Senate Bill 55, a supplemental appropriations measure, passed the Michigan Senate on March 17, 2025, by a 19-17 vote with one senator excused. Lawmakers offered and rejected numerous amendments addressing sanctuary localities, in-person work requirements for state employees, special-election funding, local road repairs, and other priorities.
Senate Bill 55, a supplemental appropriations bill for fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2024, passed the Michigan Senate on March 17, 2025, by a vote of 19-17 with one senator excused.
The bill attracted a lengthy floor amendment sequence. Senators offered amendments on a wide range of topics — including conditions on funding for so-called sanctuary localities, a requirement that state employees work in person four days per week, interim literacy and school supports, funding for local road repairs, and sector-specific clawbacks — but none of those amendments gained the votes needed to alter the bill.
Sponsor Senator Bolino offered Amendment No. 1, which he described as preventing state funds from going to any locality that “willfully violates…
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