Introduced in the Senate on March 6, 2003, to appropriate $316 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2003-2004 supplemental appropriations. None of this money is from the general fund, but a portion of it is from bond sale proceeds (i.e., borrowing by the state). $195 million is federal money. The money is appropriated to a number of department for various programs. The largest items are $146 million in increased federal welfare and food stamp money, $53 million in federal low income health care money, and approximately $75 million in "Clean Michigan Fund" debt for various environmental and brownfield projects
The vote was 37 in favor, 0 opposed and 1 not voting
(Senate Roll Call 190 at Senate Journal 34)
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