2008 House Bill 5816 ↩

House Roll Call 705: Passed

The Senate version of the Fiscal Year 2008-2009 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 would appropriate $3.158 billion in gross spending, compared to $3.123 billion, which was the FY 2007-2008 amount enrolled in 2007 (most of the increase is due to functions previously funded in other department budgets). Of this, $668.1 million will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2007-2008 amount of $660.9 million. Another $1.709 billion is from "restricted funds," or earmarked tax and fee revenue, compared to $1.703 billion the previous year. $1.085 billion of this budget is paid out in revenue sharing to local governments, compared to $1.072 billion the previous year. The budget also shifts $65 million of tobacco lawsuit revenue to the “<a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2005-HB-5047">21st Century Jobs Fund</a>”.