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Whitmer signs $28.8M mid-year budget bills, vetoes audit

The measure includes funding to implement marijuana legalization and expanded-voting ballot initiatives.
Credit: AP
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signs an executive order creating a bipartisan task force to review Michigan's jail and pretrial incarceration system Wednesday, April 17, 2019, outside the state Supreme Court chambers at the Hall of Justice in Lansing, Mich. Whitmer is ordering a comprehensive review of Michigan's jail and pretrial incarceration system, saying the status quo "isn't working." She says jail populations have nearly tripled in the last 35 years and crime is at a 50-year low. (AP Photo/David Eggert)

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed a $28.8 million mid-year spending bill to help ensure an accurate 2020 census count, implement voter-approved laws and combat lead in drinking water.

The law enacted Monday also expands a program enabling people on food assistance to buy more fresh fruits and vegetables, and replenishes a compensation fund for exonerated inmates.

The measure includes funding to implement marijuana legalization and expanded-voting ballot initiatives, and for the state's investigation of sexual abuse by clergy.

The Democratic governor line-item vetoed a provision that would have directed the auditor general to immediately review the rollout of automatic voter registration and no-excuse absentee voting requirements included Proposal 3. She says such an audit must wait until after the fiscal year ends Sept. 30.

Online Senate Bill 150: http://bit.ly/2Wtjn5X

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