The Senate Fiscal Agency (SFA) was created by State law (M.C.L. 4.1501) as a nonpartisan legislative agency and is designed primarily to provide the Michigan Senate with sound and unbiased assistance in two principal areas. The first area involves assistance in State fiscal issues. The SFA provides staff support to the Senate Appropriations Committee and assists all members of the Senate on State fiscal issues. The SFA also is responsible for providing the Senate with detailed projections of the United States and Michigan economies and forecasts of State revenue collections. The second principal area of staff support that the SFA provides to the Senate is analysis of all proposed legislation being considered by the Senate. This support takes the form of written analysis of proposed legislation that is available throughout the legislative deliberation process.