2007 Senate Bill 229 ↩

Senate Roll Call 265: Passed

The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2007-2008 General Government budget, which funds the Attorney General, Civil Rights Department, Civil Service Department, Executive, Legislature, Department of Management and Budget, Department of State, Department of Information Technology, and Department of Treasury. This appropriates $2.896 billion in gross spending, compared to $2.913 billion, which was the FY 2006-2007 amount enrolled in 2006, and $3.172 billion proposed by Gov. Granholm (see <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-252">Senate Bill 252</a>). Of this, $620.0 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2006-2007 amount of $607.3 million. Another $1.598 billion is from "restricted funds," or earmarked tax and fee revenue, compared to $1.658 billion the previous year. $1.086 billion of this budget is paid out in revenue sharing to local governments, compared to $1.107 billion the previous year. Like other Senate budgets this one would require the department to reduce administrative costs by 1.2 percent, but it exempts the Secretary of State and Attorney General from this provision.