Telephone interview with Ellen Jefferies, deputy director of Senate Fiscal Agency by Mackinac Center for Public Policy Research Intern Rachel Hoekstra, Nov. 18, 2002.
Boilerplate language found in Senate Bill 1049, p. 19. Accessible on the Internet at http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billintroduced/ senate/pdf/2004-SIB-1042.pdf