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Driven by strong tax collections, state revenue projections were increased from the estimates made in January, giving the legislature slightly more funds to appropriate while crafting the state budget. Fiscal Year 2018 General Fund-General Purpose (GF-GP) revenue is estimated to be $10.46 billion, an increase of $155.9 million from January estimates, School Aid Fund (SAF) […]

On Thursday, the Senate passed all budget bills containing appropriations for the upcoming fiscal year beginning on October 1. Highlights of the budget bills include: An increase to per pupil funding of $115 – $230 $500 million for at-risk students $5 million career and technical education incentive $1.3 billion deposit into the Michigan Public School […]

This week, Representative Jeff Yaroch (R-Richmond) introduced a bill speeding up the timetable for road repairs in Michigan. Under the bill as introduced, it would accelerate the revenue benefits from a road repair funding plan signed into law in 2015. Compared to the current schedule, this proposal would increase road repair funding by $325 million […]

This week both the House and Senate continued to move forward with the budgets for the upcoming fiscal year. In the House, the full chamber passed the two omnibus budgets; one for K-12, community colleges, and higher education, and one for all other departments. The budgets were sent to the Senate where they suspended the […]

This week, the House Appropriation Committee and a some of the Senate Appropriation Subcommittees reported their budgets for the upcoming 2018-2019 Fiscal Year. Below are highlights of the budgets as of today: Senate An additional $10 million for local public health departments $5 million in General Fund dollars to improve rural access to primary care […]

This week, some of the House and Senate Appropriation Subcommittees reported their budget recommendations for the upcoming 2018-2019 Fiscal Year. The budgets now move onto the full Appropriation Committees for consideration. “The House and Senate budgets do have items of differences between each other, and the administration. Those will be worked out later in the […]

This week the Senate passed a House bill providing an additional $175 million in road funding for the current fiscal year. The funds will come from money left over from a previous budget cycle and won’t require any budget cuts or revenue increases to cover the cost. Governor Snyder’s budget proposal for the 2019 Fiscal […]

This week the House unanimously voted to appropriate an additional $175 million for infrastructure improvements in the current fiscal year. The plan uses money left over from a previous state government budget cycle and is already available, therefore they won’t need to make any budget cuts or increase or add fees to fund the proposal. […]