2008 Senate Bill 1099 ↩

House Roll Call 516: Passed

The House version of the Fiscal Year 2008-2009 higher education budget. This would appropriate $1.799 billion in gross spending, of which all but $7.4 million is general fund and other money raised in this state. This compares to $1.896 appropriated in FY 2007-2008, which was inflated by the inclusion of a delayed disbursement from the previous year’s budget. The budget spends the same amount as Gov. Granholm’s executive recommendation (<a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2008-SB-1154">Senate Bill 1154</a>), but rather than increasing the increases to various schools by 2.3 and 6.2 percent based on factors such as the number of low-income students, graduation rates, and amount of research and technology transfer, the House just gives them 2.7 percent more; it also spends more on Indian tuition waivers than the Senate version.