2003 House Bill 4392 ↩

Senate Roll Call 228: Passed

The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2003-2004 Department of Community Health budget. This appropriates $9.146 billion in gross spending (funded from all sources, including state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars), compared to $9.730 billion, which was the FY 2002-2003 amount passed by the legislature in 2002, excluding any supplemental appropriations, line-item vetoes, or later cuts. Of this, $2.583 billion will come from the General Fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2002-2003 amount enrolled in 2002 of $2.477 billion. The Senate and the House versions both strike out a $60 million transfer to this budget from the tobacco lawsuit settlement fund, replacing this with General Fund dollars. The tobacco money is currently used to fund the $2,500 Merit Award college scholarship program. Gov. Jennifer Granholm had proposed reducing the scholarships to $500 and using the savings to fund this budget. The SeMuch 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.