LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed a $385 million supplemental budget bill, two-thirds of which will go to Michigan hospitals and long-term care facilities confronting financial pressures due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The new law also allocates $10 million in state emergency spending for the response to tornadoes or flooding in four counties in late June and $105 million to increase subsidy rates by 40% for child care providers that serve low-income children, retroactive to last October.
All but $17 million of the funding is from federal COVID-19 relief aid enacted by Congress and former President Donald Trump.
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