2011 Senate Bill 179 ↩

Senate Roll Call 231: Passed

The Senate version of the 2011-2012 Department of Human Services (Welfare) budget. This would appropriate $6.83 billion in gross spending, compared to $6.95 billion the previous year. Of this, $1.07 billion will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues. $5.63 billion of this budget is federal money (of which $549 million is “stimulus” deficit spending). Among other changes it trims $9.9 million from a clothing subsidy welfare program.