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Last week, Michigan’s legislature put the finishing touches on the State of Michigan’s 2018-2019 Fiscal Year budget. The legislature accounted for and appropriated $39.9 billion to the state’s thirteen budget areas, plus an additional $16.8 billion to K-12 schools, community colleges, and universities. The approximately $56.7 billion budget passed with little controversy or fanfare. In […]

This week, conference committees met and signed conference reports for the budgets for the upcoming 2018-2019 Fiscal Year. This is the last step in the process prior to the full House and Senate voting on the finalized versions of the budgets. Highlights include: The closure of a second state prison $2.4 million to expand education […]

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 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 […]

Today, before a joint session of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, Governor Rick Snyder, Lt. Governor Brian Calley, and incoming State Budget Director John Walsh presented the executive budget recommendations for the upcoming fiscal year. While the overall budget growth over the current fiscal year is only 0.6%, the Governor announced new initiatives and […]