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House roll call #22 · 2017–2018 session · March 22, 2017

Making appropriations for fiscal year 2017 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects

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Official wording: H.3448, On passing to be engrossed the House Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2017 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects (House, No. 3448, amended).

Who filed H.3448

Sponsor House Committee on Ways and Means

Committees often rewrite bills. The legislators who filed the original versions are listed on malegislature.gov.

156 Yes1 No3 did not vote

Passed

Every member's vote

Voted yes (156)
Voted no (1)
Did not vote (3)

What it means

A fiscal year 2017 supplemental budget totaling $144,382,350, according to the committee's cover note. Its largest items include $26,938,875 and $4,118,994 for the Committee for Public Counsel Services, $28,047,282 for sheriffs' deficiencies, $20,866,274 for the Department of Housing and Community Development, $14,000,000 for the Department of Correction and $10,800,000 for the Department of Developmental Services, plus money for collective bargaining costs, the state drug lab investigation and marijuana regulation. It also changes how certain pension-related costs are funded and accounted for, raises the $150,000 figure in section 100A of the state retirement law to $300,000, and, starting January 1, 2018, sets the filing deadline for S corporation tax returns at the 15th day of the third month after the tax year ends (other business corporations, the fourth month).

Source: official text and history of H.3448 on malegislature.gov. This describes the bill text posted there; amendments may have changed the version that was voted on.

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