2004 House Bill 5527 ↩

House Roll Call 374: Passed

To reduce projected spending in Fiscal Year 2005 by $266.6 million. The bill cuts $52 million from Medicaid by no longer providing coverage for certain categories of individual not required by the federal government; saves $20 million by requiring recipients of the MEAP merit award scholarship to maintain a "C" average in college; saves approximately $17 million by providing an early retirement incentive for certain state employees; cuts $14.8 million by reducing day care subsidies to welfare recipients; cuts $14.8 million from prisoner education programs; cuts arts grants by $10 million; cuts $12.5 million from Intermediate School Districts (ISDs); and cuts one percent from state colleges, universities, and all state department administrative funding (except transportation), which saves $90 million. However, some of the cuts are to budgets that have not yet been passed, so the effect of this vote is uncertain.