2005 Senate Bill 242 ↩

Senate Roll Call 260: Passed

To authorize $187.8 million in supplemental appropriations for various state departments and programs. Of this, $83.0 million is federal money, and the balance is from state tax and fee revenue. $70 million of the total is for more Medicaid spending; $47 million is for capital projects and rent on buildings used by the state; $17 million is for information technology; $32 million for a new internet-based unemployed worker payment system; $10 million for natural resources trust fund recreation projects and acquisitions; and lesser amounts for many other items. The budget allows a $4 million grant to the Detroit zoo to go forward, by eliminating a deadline on the city accepting the terms of the grant. For more details see this <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/billanalysis/Senate/pdf/2005-SFA-0242-U.pdf">Senate Fiscal Agency memo</a>.