State Rep. Annette Glenn of Midland and her colleagues worked hard to restore funding for several vital programs in Michigan, and today that hard work has paid off.

Glenn today announced the Legislature’s plan restoring support for Michigan’s most vulnerable residents has been signed into law.

“I am so glad the governor realized her vetoes were a mistake and changed her mind about cutting funding for so many important programs,” Glenn said. “I look forward to seeing the relationship between Gov. Whitmer and the Legislature improve moving forward.”

Glenn’s personal efforts helped restore $5 million to implement K-3 summer school programs for students who are not reading at grade level and more than $5 million to increase Medicaid reimbursement rates for providers of care for newborn babies.

“The people of Midland and Bay counties and all of Michigan, will again have the support necessary for these and many other important programs,” Glenn said.

Funding was also restored for:

• Public safety. The measure reverses the governor’s $13 million in cuts to the program allowing sheriffs to hire patrols for secondary roads, which last year amounted to more than $140,000 for the Bay County Sheriff’s Department and roughly $70,000 for Midland County. The plan also restored $10 million for school safety grants and funding for counties that hold state prisoners in their jails.

• Education. The plan restores funding to ensure public charter schools will get the same per-student funding increase planned for students in traditional K-12 public schools. The plan restores the tuition grant money for 17,000 independent college students the governor eliminated – which hurt students at Delta College and Northwood University.

• Health care. The plan restores $7.9 million for rural hospitals providing obstetrician care, $16.6 million for rural hospitals serving relatively high rates of Medicaid and low-income patients, $10.7 million to improve pediatric psychiatric services, roughly $1.5 million to help children with autism, and more than $1 million to fight opioid drug abuse.