2002 Senate Bill 1105 ↩

House Roll Call 279: Passed

The House version the FY 2002-2003 Higher Education budget. This appropriates $1.944 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $1.947 billion, which was the FY 2001-2002 amount enacted in 2001, excluding any supplemental appropriations. Of this, $1.812 billion will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the current year’s $1.812 billion. The bill would give colleges the same amount they receive in FY 2001-02 for operations if they agree to increase resident undergraduate tuition no more than 8.5 percent, or $425, whichever is greater. It also includes $2 million for architectural studies on a Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA) facility, if Michigan State University is chosen by the federal government as its location, and $4 million for a nursing scholarship program, to be funded from tobacco company lawsuit money.