2004 Senate Bill 1067 ↩

House Roll Call 760: Passed

The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004-2005 higher education budget. This appropriates $1.690 billion in unadjusted gross spending, compared to $1.697 billion, which was the final FY 2003-2004 gross. Of this, $1.600 billion will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the final FY 2003-2004 amount of $1.603 million. The budget restores a three-percent cut to universities that have kept their tuition increases below 2.8 percent. To qualify, Northern Michigan University, Lake Superior State University, Western Michigan University, Michigan State University, Saginaw Valley State University and Grand Valley State University will have to either rebate past tuition hikes, roll back new “student fees,” or increase tuition this year by an even lesser amount.