2006 Senate Bill 1081 ↩

House Roll Call 1322: Passed

The House version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2006-2007 capital outlay budget. The bill appropriates $201.4 million in adjusted gross spending, but authorizes dozens of projects, including seven university and 13 community college projects, that would likely cost more than $193 million when completed. The House fully funds a request by Gov. Jennifer Granholm to increase state borrowing by $100 million for spending on "local infrastructure" projects, and earmarks a number of these to get the loan proceeds. The bill does not appropriate extra money for three state departments which had just revealed that they spent $45 million more in Fiscal Year 2005-2006 than the legislature had authorized. See the House Fiscal Agency <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/billanalysis/House/pdf/2005-HLA-1081-4.pdf">analysis</a> for more details on the extra spending.