2004 House Bill 5509 ↩

Senate Roll Call 343: Passed

The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004-2005 Department of Agriculture budget. (Note: Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s proposed budget for this department is <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2004-HB-5605">House Bill 5605 </a>.) This appropriates $105.1 million in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $86.3 million, which was the FY 2003-2004 amount enrolled in 2003. Of this, $31.5 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2003-2004 amount of $31.4 million. The Senate version authorizes approximately the same amount of gross spending as the governor recommended. However, given that the Senate version transfers $5.4 million in spending for the state fair from this budget to the Department of Management and Budget, other spending proposed by the Senate is actually higher. 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.