Rep. Phil Green today voted to send a budget resolution plan to the governor, restoring funding for health care, public safety and other essential services.

“There has been a lot of hard work over the past couple of months to try and get everyone on the same page, and we have a bipartisan resolution on hand,” said Green, of Millington. “Health care, public safety, education – the people of the Thumb count on these services, and that’s why I kept fighting to make sure they were properly funded. Support for these programs never should have been vetoed in the first place.”

Green led efforts to restore the more than $16 million the governor vetoed earlier this year supporting rural hospitals with relatively higher rates of Medicaid and low-income patients. The restoration plan also includes $7.9 million for rural hospitals providing obstetrician care, $10.7 million to improve pediatric psychiatric services, and additional money to help children with autism and Michigan residents fighting opioid drug abuse.

The budget plan also reverses the governor’s $13 million in cuts to the program allowing sheriffs to hire patrols for secondary roads, and also restores $10 million she eliminated for school safety grants.

The plan also supports services for military veterans, along with educational programs including literacy and dropout recovery initiatives.

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