2009 House Bill 5358

Continue Detroit “First Class School District” status

Introduced in the House

Sept. 15, 2009

Introduced by Rep. Bettie Cook Scott (D-3)

To revise language in the 2003 “Michigan Land Bank Fast Track Authority” law giving Detroit the power to assemble and dispose of tax reverted property, so that it still applies to Detroit even though its school district no longer qualifies as a “school district of the first class,” a statutory device to prohibit an expansion of charter schools in the city.

Referred to the Committee on Education