2008 House Bill 5814 ↩

Senate Roll Call 485: Passed

The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year 2008-2009 Department of Social Services (Welfare) budget. This would appropriate $4.580 billion in gross spending, compared to $4.589 billion, which was the FY 2007-2008 amount enrolled in 2007. Of this, $1.285 billion will come from the general fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the FY 2007-2008 amount of $1.312 billion. $3.174 billion of this budget is federal money. $33 million of the decline from last year is from reduced welfare caseloads. For budget details see House Fiscal Agency <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/billanalysis/House/pdf/2007-HLA-5814-8.pdf">analysis</a>.