2004 Senate Bill 1064 ↩

House Roll Call 445: Passed

The House version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004-2005 Department of Corrections budget. (Note: Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s proposed budget for this department is <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2003-SB-1037">Senate Bill 1037 </a>.) This appropriates $1.784 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $1.609 billion in FY 2003-2004. Of this, $1.711 billion will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2003-2004 amount of $1.632 billion. The House version authorizes approximately $37 million less in gross spending than the governor recommended, and adds $8.6 million more than the Senate for prisoner education, drug treatment, and Hepatitis C health care. It does not include the cuts proposed by <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2003-HB-5527">House Bill 5527</a>. 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.