2019 House Bill 4246 ↩

House Roll Call 127: Passed

The House version of the Fiscal Year 2019-2020 Department of Transportation budget. This would appropriate $5.40 billion in gross spending. Of this, $1.34 billion is federal money, and the rest is from state and local taxes and fees. The budget does not recognize or include any revenue from a $2.5 billion, 45 cents per gallon gas tax increase proposed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, but does include a $542.5 million "fund shift" from a Republican proposal to no longer charge sales tax on fuel, replacing that levy with an equivalent increase in motor fuel taxes. Note: Most sales tax revenue goes to schools; the proposal assumes these school dollars will be replaced by extending sales tax to <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2019-HB-4542">out-of-state catalog and internet sales</a> after the U.S. Supreme Court's 2018 Wayfair decision lifted a ban on this.