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• Introduced by Rep. Terry Brown (D) on April 29, 2009, to provide a “template” or “place holder” for a Fiscal Year (FY) 2009-2010 multisection school aid supplemental budget. This budget contains no appropriations, but these may be added later to make changes to current or future appropriations.
  • Referred to the House Appropriations Committee on April 29, 2009.
    • Reported in the House on November 3, 2009, with the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
  • Substitute offered in the House on November 5, 2009, to replace the previous version of the bill with one that appropriates $159 million in federal “stimulus” money that currently is being reserved for next year’s school budget to “undo” school spending reductions implemented by Gov. Jennifer Granholm through “executive order” per pupil foundation grant cuts. The substitute passed in the House by voice vote on November 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Jennifer Haase (D) on November 5, 2009, to establish as the "intent of the legislature" that future school budgets be adopted by June 1 each year. The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on November 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Dan Scripps (D) on November 5, 2009, to use $7.5 million from proposed tax increases to pay for certain pre-school programs. The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on November 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Marc Corriveau (D) on November 5, 2009, to use $27.5 million from proposed tax increases to put back into the budget half of the $54 million in so-called “Section 20(j)” money that Gov. Granholm line-item vetoed from K-12 School Aid Budget. This money is is granted to 51 particular school districts that tend to be wealthier ones, with some exceptions. The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on November 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Jennifer Haase (D) and Rep. Mike Huckleberry (D) on November 5, 2009, to appropriate $27.5 million from proposed tax hikes to school districts that get relatively smaller foundation grants ("equity grants").
• Passed in the House (74 to 29) on November 5, 2009, to appropriate $159 million in federal “stimulus” money that currently is being reserved for next year’s school budget, and another $59 million the House proposes getting from various tax hikes, to “undo” school spending reductions implemented by Gov. Jennifer Granholm through line-item budget vetoes and “executive order” per pupil foundation grant cuts. The bill would restore half the so-called “section 20(j)” to certain (mostly) wealthier school districts; undo $117 per pupil of the executive order cuts; and add $7.6 million in spending for certain preschool programs. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Received in the Senate on November 10, 2009.
  • Referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee on November 10, 2009.