2007 House Bill 4346 ↩

House Roll Call 302: Passed

The House version of the Fiscal Year (FY) Department of Education budget. This appropriates $97.794 million in gross spending, compared to $90.665 million, which was the FY 2006-2007 amount enrolled in 2006. Of this, $8.187 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2006-2007 amount of $6.66 million. (Much of that increase is due to the transfer of career and technical education operations from the Department of Labor and Economic Development.) Another $7.236 million comes from state “restricted fund” revenue that is generated by various fees and other levies. Note: As with all House Budgets, this one authorizes spending well in excess of projected revenues, and is based on the presumption of a substantial tax increase.