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House roll call #61 · 2017–2018 session · May 24, 2017

Supplemental budget for fiscal year 2017

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Official wording: H.3718, 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. 3718).

Who filed H.3718

Sponsor House Committee on Ways and Means

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

153 Yes1 No6 did not vote

Passed

Every member's vote

Voted yes (153)
Voted no (1)
Did not vote (6)

What it means

This House supplemental budget adds $45,462,481 to the state budget for fiscal year 2017, according to the committee's cover note. It includes $15,000,000 for the Department of Correction, $14,962,481 for an item in the Office of the Secretary for Administration and Finance, $14,000,000 for transfer to a Department of Transportation trust fund, and $1,500,000 for the Department of Conservation and Recreation, raising that item from $17,700,000 to $19,200,000. It also allows transfers of up to $3,785,457 between two housing items, directs money tied to the tobacco settlement into the State Retiree Benefits Trust Fund, and has an emergency preamble.

Source: official text and history of H.3718 on malegislature.gov. This describes the bill text posted there; amendments may have changed the version that was voted on.

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