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Whitmer OKs $385M bill with aid for hospitals, nursing homes

LANSING, MI (AP)--   Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed a $385 million supplemental budget bill, two-thirds of which will go to Michigan hospitals and nursing homes 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 percent 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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