2007 House Bill 4344 ↩

House Roll Call 255: Passed

The House version of the Fiscal Year 2007-2008 Department of Community Health budget. This appropriates $11.879 billion in gross spending, compared to $11.196 billion, which was the FY 2006-2007 amount enrolled in 2006. Of this, $6.600 billion is federal money, compared to the FY 2006-2007 amount of $6.042 billion, and $5.239 billion is from state tax and other revenues, compared to $5.154 billion enrolled the previous year. $8.5 billion of the spending is on Medicaid, up $667 million from the previous year. Like other House budgets and those proposed by the governor, this one is premised on passage of tax hikes of between $1.2 billion and $1.8 billion. It adds $341 million to spending proposed by the governor.