2003 House Bill 4032 ↩

Senate Roll Call 80: Passed

A supplemental multi-department budget for FY 2002-2003. The bill appropriates $330.9 million in gross funding, mostly federal money, but cuts current year general fund appropriations by $5.6 million, including $1.8 million in cuts the Legislature's budget, and $1.1 million from the judiciary. It adds $204.9 million for Medicaid; $23.3 million to the Department of Community Health for bioterrorism programs and $48 million for other homeland security grants; $14.1 million for election reform programs; $7.25 million to eradicate the Emerald Ash Borer in Southeast Michigan; $8.4 million for low-income home energy assistance, and $2.2 million in assistance for Oakland County related to April ice storms. Unspent departmental appropriations would be deposited in the Budget Stabilization ("Rainy Day”) fund, except the Attorney General office could keep up to $800,000 it collects in prisoner reimbursement funds for other activities. The bill also contains $1.5 million for the Department of Natural Resources to pay summer taxes on some 60,000 parcels containing one-million acres of state-owned land, which it has threatened not to pay this year; and orders the reinstatement of 34 road expansion projects that Gov. Jennifer Granholm had postponed as part of her “Fix it First” program, which places a higher priority on repairing existing roads.