2007 House Bill 4358 ↩

House Roll Call 500: Passed

The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2007-2008 Department of Environmental Quality budget. This appropriates $370.8 million in gross spending, compared to $444.2 million, which was the FY 2006-2007 amount enrolled in 2006. (Note: Much of that decline is from the depletion of money borrowed in the 1998 "Clean Michigan Initiative" bond proposal.) Of the gross spending, $31.7 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2006-2007 amount of $49.6 million; and $188.2 million is from other state sources including bonded indebtedness, fees, royalties, etc., compared to $251.3 million last year. Note: the budget presumes that the legislature will adopt approximately $18 million in increased environmental license and permit fees extracted from business by Jan. 15, 2008.