To appropriate additional funds for various state departments and programs, and revise previously approved Medicaid and welfare appropriations downward to reflect reduced caseloads. Among new spending authorized by the bill is $2 million for government jobs programs in Detroit and some other cities, $9 million for specific environmental cleanup projects, $3.5 million to fight recent U.P. fires and more. $15 million for the crop loss subsidies proposed by House Bill 5717 is authorized but not actually appropriated. The bill also allocates $97 million from a national mortgage foreclosure legal settlement to various spending.
79 Yeas / 31 Nays | |
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