2002 House Bill 5651 ↩

Senate Roll Call 852: Passed

The second House-Senate conference report for the FY 2002-2003 Transportation budget. This would appropriate $3.125 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state "restricted" funds, primarily those funded by user fees such as fuel taxes and license fees, and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to the current year's $3.109 billion, which was the FY 2001-2002 amount enacted in 2001, excluding any supplemental appropriations or cuts. The conference report contains proposed transfers of $94.6 million in transportation tax revenue to the Department of State, and $10.2 million to the Department of Treasury, but does not contain $1 million in “start-up” money for the Detroit Area Regional Transportation Authority (DARTA) proposed by House Bill 5467. It also adds $7.5 million in fire protection grants to local governments, to restore funding removed from House Bill 5644 by a line item veto. Note: The governor vetoed this item to “send a message” that adoption by voters of three ballot initiatives in November would make it more difficult to balance future budgets, because they contain certain spending mandates that would remove budget discretion from the legislature. See veto override votes in House Bill 5651 for additional details on the vetoes and the initiatives.