2003 Senate Bill 283 ↩

Senate Roll Call 375: Passed

The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2003-2004 Family Independence Agency budget (welfare). (The executive recommendation for this budget is contained in Senate Bill 308.) This would appropriate $3.959 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $4.070 billion, which was the FY 2002-2003 amount enrolled in 2002, excluding any supplemental appropriations, line-item vetoes, or later cuts. Of this, $1.133 billion would come from the General Fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the current year's $1.173 billion. General Fund appropriations in the conference report are $30 million above the amount recommended by the governor, most of which is for higher than expected welfare caseloads. 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.