2007 Senate Bill 220 ↩

Senate Roll Call 39: Passed

To cut approximately $250 million from government spending appropriated in scores of line items for Fiscal Year 2006-2007. Among the cuts are approximately $65 million from the Department of Community Health (including Medicaid and $21 million for the Detroit-Wayne County Community Mental Health Board); $11 million in welfare spending; $40 million from state revenue sharing; $14 million in public transportation; $3.6 million in arts grants; money for community corrections programs, loans to parolees and a prison union leave bank; and many others. See also Senate Bill 221.