2019 House Bill 5071

Authorize additional spending in FY 2019-20 state budget

Introduced in the House

Oct. 8, 2019

Introduced by Rep. Joseph Bellino (R-17)

To appropriate $600,000 for grants to high schools to pay for counselors, therapeutic staff, and recovery coaching staff related to student opioid and drug abuse . This money was in the 2019-20 fiscal year budget approved by the legislature in late September of 2019, but was removed by one of 147 line-item vetoes executed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, which struck $947 million from proposed spending.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations