2011 Senate Bill 871 ↩

Senate Roll Call 474: Passed

To appropriate additional funds for various state departments and programs, in particular various medical welfare programs including hospital subsidies, and revise previously approved Medicaid and welfare appropriations downward to reflect reduced caseloads. Among new spending authorized by the bill is $15 million for the crop loss subsidies proposed by House Bill 5717, $2 million for government jobs programs in Detroit and some other cities, $9 million for specific environmental cleanup projects, and more. The bill also allocates $97 million from a national mortgage foreclosure legal settlement to various spending. Not included was authority requested by the Snyder administration to spend $9.85 from a federal grant to create a state “Obamacare exchange” to administer “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” subsidies.