2003 House Bill 4390 ↩

House Roll Call 450: Passed

The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2003-2004 Department of Corrections budget. (Note: Gov. Granholm’s proposed budget for this department is <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2003-HB-4414">House Bill 4414 </a>.) This appropriates $1.721 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $1.701 billion, which was the FY 2002-2003 amount enrolled in 2002, excluding any supplemental appropriations, line-item vetoes, or later cuts. Of this, $1.632 billion will come from the General Fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the amount passed in 2002 for FY 2002-2003 of $1.618 billion. These are the amounts originally recommended by the governor. Prison academic and vocational programs are funded at $32.6 million, a cut of $3.5 million. Much more information on Michigan’s budget is available at <a href="http://www.mackinac.org/4964">Hot Topics: Michigan’s Budget Challenge</a> at www.mackinac.org/4964.