2002 House Bill 5649 ↩

Senate Roll Call 529: Passed

The Senate version of the FY 2002-2003 Department of Military and Veterans Affairs budget. This appropriates $104.0 million in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $102.5 million, which was the FY 2001-2002 amount enacted in 2001, excluding any supplemental appropriations. Of this, $41.4 million will come from the General Fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the current year’s $41.83 million. The Senate eliminated a plan seeking to convert the Grand Rapids Veterans Home to Medicaid-certified facility, which could if successful increase federal funding by $8.6 million and allow a decrease of $5 million in state general fund money. The Senate version adds $919,525 in general fund spending for veterans groups which had been cut by a November, 2001 budget-balancing executive order.