2003 Senate Bill 575 ↩

House Roll Call 494: Passed

The House-Senate conference report, which is essentially the bill as introduced. This would reduce by three percent the amount of the combined Constitutional and statutory state revenue payments paid to local and county governments in Fiscal Year 2003-2004, including Detroit. The actual cut will come from the statutory portion, as reducing the Constitutional portion would require a Constitutional amendment. But the size of the reduction is based on the combined total. Given the differing proportions of statutory and Constitutionally-mandated revenue sharing which comprise the payments made to particular local governments, this formula has the effect of reducing payments less to the large (and poorer) cities (including Detroit) and less to newer, faster growing communities.