2001 Senate Bill 287 ↩

Senate Roll Call 567: Passed

The Senate version of a supplemental general government budget for the current fiscal year. The bill appropriates $659.2 million in gross funding from all sources, mostly federal money. Of this $28.3 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues). The budget provides $471.9 million in gross appropriations ($21.8 million general fund) for the Department of Community Health. This includes $166.5 million to accommodate caseload increases in Medicaid and Children's Special Health Care Services programs; $31.2 million for a bioterrorism preparedness initiative, and $10 million for other public health initiatives. The budget also has $55 million for an Airport Safety and Protection Plan. Other items include $4.5 million for county jail reimbursements, $211,500 for renaissance zone tax reimbursements to libraries, $900,000 for veterans service organization grants which had been reduced in 2001 by a deficit-closing executive order, $24 million for federal bridge funding, and $10.7 million for testing of grade school students pursuant to new federal requirements and grants. The budget was amended in committee to add $22 million to purchase two buildings from Ford for the University of Michigan Dearborn Campus, $5.9 million for a business training and performing arts building at Monroe County Community College, and $15,800 to reimburse the city of Flint for expenses incurred preparing for a special mayoral election cancelled pending a state review of the city’s troubled financial situation.