2007 Senate Bill 229 ↩

Senate Roll Call 457: Passed

The House-Senate conference report for 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, Michigan Strategic Fund and Department of Treasury. This appropriates $3.123 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, $660.9 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 $1.703 billion is from "restricted funds," or earmarked tax and fee revenue, compared to $1.658 billion the previous year. $1.072 billion of this budget is paid out in revenue sharing to local governments, compared to $1.107 billion the previous year.