2001 Senate Bill 291 ↩

House Roll Call 466: Passed

To adopt the House version of a supplemental budget bill with funding source revisions needed to balance the budget, given FY 2001-2002 spending levels agreed to by legislative negotiators, and make new appropriations. The bill transfers to the general fund $72.5 million from a state college scholarship fund and $3 million from tobacco settlement funds. It contains $5 million for a new ethanol plant in the Thumb region, and $3 million for perinatal research at Wayne State University. It restores $7 million of a $10 million reduction in tobacco settlement-funded life science research grants made by the Senate version, appropriates $3 million to a “Southwest Michigan Innovation Center” in Kalamazoo, and contains an additional $197.8 million in federal food stamp funds. SB 291 appropriates $61 million from Clean Michigan Initiative bond proceeds to various environmental and development projects, and $37 million from the Natural Resources Trust Fund for local recreation grants. It also contains the FY 2001-2002 budget for the newly created Department of Arts, History, and Libraries, with $42.3 million in gross spending, and $37.0 million from the general fund. This is to fund programs transferred from various other state departments, and $2.5 million for new arts and culture grants. The bill does not contain two-year budgets for three state departments which had been included in an earlier substitute reported by the House Appropriations committee.