2009 House Bill 4441 ↩

House Roll Call 473: Passed

The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009-2010 higher education budget. This would appropriate $1.612 billion in gross spending, compared to $1.769 billion, which was the FY 2008-2009 amount enrolled in 2008. Of this, $74.1 million is federal revenue. This cuts .4 percent from university operations grans, reverses a 50 percent cut proposed by the Governor in the MSU Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, and eliminates the "Promise Grant" or Merit Award scholarships paid for with tobacco lawsuit money.