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Michigan's tax revenue from major taxes and lottery revenue for March was down 21.5% from March and $104.5 million below the Senate Fiscal Agency's projection for the month, the agency reported Wednesday.

Unearthing the long-dead Office of the State Archeologist was one of the topics taken up during Tuesday’s House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture and Rural Development and Natural Resources hearing.

Senate Appropriations Chair Sarah Anthony (D-Lansing) said the expected timeline for the Senate budget approval process is moving it through Appropriations by late May to early June.

A new grant for nearly $1.26 billion to enforce child support payment orders through the state Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) was the largest of a series of the latest grants approved during the State Administrative Board’s March 28 meeting.

The Michigan Department of Corrections has handed over several plots of land that once housed the vacant Riverside Correctional Facility in Ionia city to the State Land Bank Authority for a yet-to-determined project.