State Sen. and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Jim Stamas (R-Midland) issued a statement after the Senate voted Dec. 4 on supplemental budget bills to fund programs affected by Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s vetoes.
According Stamas’ office, the legislation – Senate Bills 376 and 377 – would restore a total of $573.5 million of the governor’s vetoed funding and administrative funding transfers. Several critical state services will receive much-needed money, a release states.
“These supplemental budget bills would restore many of the critical funding line-item vetoed and transferred by the governor in October,” the senator said in a release. This will restore funding to treat Alzheimer’s, autism, and opioid addiction; support local law enforcement and hospitals and local governments; provide scholarships promised to college students; teach children in charter and rural schools; investigate child abuse and protect foster care programs.”
Stamas added that while the vote “does not restore all of the governor’s vetoes and transfers, it is a good first step in the right direction.”
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