2009 Senate Bill 95 ↩

House Roll Call 446: Passed

To use $863.6 million of federal "stimulus" money to avoid budget cuts. The bill uses that money to displace state General Fund appropriations in the Fiscal Year 2008-09 budgets for the Departments of Community Health, Human Services, Natural Resources, Transporation, and "Energy, Labor, Economic Growth." According to the House Fiscal Agency, a total of $3.7 billion in "stimulus" funds already has been appropriated in the state budget.