2004 Senate Bill 1066 ↩

Senate Roll Call 172: Passed

The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004-2005 Department of Environmental Quality budget. (Note: Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s proposed budget for this department is <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2003-SB-1039">Senate Bill 1039</a>.) This appropriates $326.2 million in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $332.2 million, which was the FY 2003-2004 amount enrolled in 2003. Of this, $36.0 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2003-2004 amount of $56.1 million. The Senate version authorizes approximately the same amount of gross spending as the governor recommended. 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.