2014 House Bill 5314 / Public Act 196

Appropriations: “Omnibus” education budget

Introduced in the House

Feb. 11, 2014

Introduced by Rep. Bill Rogers (R-42)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for a Fiscal Year 2014-2015 “Omnibus” school aid, higher education and community colleges budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 23, 2014

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

May 8, 2014

Substitute offered

The substitute failed by voice vote

Substitute offered by Rep. Bill Rogers (R-42)

To replace the original "placeholder" language with an actual budget bill.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Terry Brown (D-84)

To require the Department of Education to do a study on how much money it would cost to operate a conventional public school capable of meeting certain specified goals.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Terry Brown (D-84)

To reduce funding for online "cyberschools".

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Terry Brown (D-84)

To require the Department of Education to do a study on how much money it would cost to operate a conventional public school capable of meeting certain specified goals.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Sean McCann (D-60)

To delete a provision that allocates $10 million for grants to the school districts that took over the territory and operations of a fiscally-failed neighboring district (this refers the Buena Vista School District in Saginaw County). Also, to increase the "basic" and "minimum" per student foundation grants to school districts, and eliminate a provision that makes some of this operations funding contingent on schools meeting certain best practices. Also, to eliminate extra funding "Section 20j" districts especially impacted by the 1994 Proposal A school funding overhaul.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Sean McCann (D-60)

To revise the definition of an "at risk" student (the presence of whom can trigger extra money for school districts) to include children who are the victims of abuse or neglect; girls who are pregnant and boys who impregnated a girl; teenagers who have had a child; children with a family history of school failure, incarceration, or substance abuse; and more.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Brandon Dillon (D-75)

To tie-bar the bill to House Bill 5269, meaning this bill cannot become law unless that one does also. HB 5269 would require the state Department of Education to hire an auditor to determine how much money per student is needed for a conventional public school to provide an “adequate” and “equitable” education that meets “established performance standards” and “assures academic success for all.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Brandon Dillon (D-75)

To delete a provision that adds conditions to exceptions in a provision requiring a specified portion of preschool programs to be outsourced to private or public entities.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Brandon Dillon (D-75)

To earmark $22.3 million for grants to school districts to replace "broken or dilapidated student desks and chairs".

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Adam Zemke (D-55)

Eliminate a provision that makes some community college funding contingent on schools meeting certain best practices.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Robert Kosowski (D-16)

To increase per-student foundation grants to certain school districts based on details and circumstances related to adoption of the funding formula enacted in the 1994 Proposal A school finance overhaul.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Thomas Hooker (R-77)

To increase spending on Intermediate School Districts by $2 million.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Tom McMillin (R-45)

To require state universities to post online a listing of all payments or disbursements of university funds, received from any source, updated and published on a quarterly basis.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Tom McMillin (R-45)

To require public school districts to post online a listing of all payments or disbursements of school funds, received from any source, updated and published on a quarterly basis.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Tom McMillin (R-45)

To eliminate funding for a "P-20 longitudinal data system" that tracks student testing an other data from year to year across different databases.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Ray Franz (R-101)

To delete a section authorizing a student nutrition and behavior tracking computer program that provides a “sustainable, interactive health and nutrition education platform and personal responsibility health behavior record” that would collect “personal use health behavior data that are cumulative and accessible in real time only to the user and those authorized by the user through a secure online dashboard”.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Bill Rogers (R-42)

To earmark $3 million to reimburse districts for a public school data analytical computer program that analyzes financial and academic data, provides early warning indicators of financial stress; and can provide peer district comparisons.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Bill Rogers (R-42)

To clarify details of allocating per-student funding for online courses.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Bill Rogers (R-42)

To give priority in allocating certain grants encouraging school service consolidations applicants who include a “comprehensive, research-based academic early warning indicator and dropout prevention solution” and “a data-driven system for identifying early reading challenges and establishing individual reading development plans”.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Mike McCready (R-40)

To add an additional $125 to the per-student "foundation allowance" school operations funding amounts.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Martin Howrylak (R-41)

To permit parents who live in the territory covered by an intermediate school district or a consortium of ISDs that get state money for preschool programs to enroll their children in programs provided by any of the ISDs or their constituent regular school districts.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Martin Howrylak (R-41)

To increase the per-student "foundation allowance" school operations funding amounts.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Peter MacGregor (R-73)

To specify certain conditions and criteria for funding "dual enrollment" classes that let students get both high school and post-secondary credit for the course.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Peter MacGregor (R-73)

To increase the per-student "foundation allowance" school operations funding amounts.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Paul Muxlow (R-83)

To give extra money to school districts with declining enrollment.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Bill Rogers (R-42)

To require public schools to continue to use a statewide Michigan Education Assessment Program (MEAP) for testing students rather that a controversial testing regime associated with a national "Common Core" curriculum.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Peter MacGregor (R-73)

To add an additional $25 million to be allocated to school districts on a per-student basis, and to remove from a list of specified "best practices" schools must adopt to get certain extra funding whether a school provides physical education or health education.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Bill Rogers (R-42)

To revise details related to a requirement that a specified portion of preschool programs be outsourced to private or public entities, exceptions to that requirement, and other preschool program funding details.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. David Knezek (D-11)

To require universities to report on extra state-funded services they provide to veterans.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Lisa Posthumus Lyons (R-86)

To provide one school district (presumably Detroit) with extra money for collaborating with a university (presumably Michigan State) that offers a teacher training program specializing in graduates from that program to teach in the district.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Paul Muxlow (R-83)

To authorize extra money to school districts with declining enrollment.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Klint Kesto (R-39)

To revise many of the provisions that comprise school aid portion of the bill in ways that would in general replace the spending and policy preferences of the Republican majority with those of the Democratic minority.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Patrick Somerville (R-23)

To remove funding but leave in place an authorization for a student nutrition and behavior tracking computer program, with the funding amount to be determined later.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 97 to 12 (details)

The House version of the K-12 school aid, community college and university budgets for the fiscal year that begins Oct 1, 2014. A separate House budget authorizes the rest of state government spending (House Bill 5313). This bill would appropriate $13.775 billion for K-12 public schools, compared to $13.361 billion originally appropriated for the prior year, an increase of $414 million. It also appropriates $1.507 billion for state universities, compared to $1.430 billion the prior year. Community colleges would get $371 million, vs. $335 million the prior year.

Received in the Senate

May 13, 2014

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

May 14, 2014

Substitute offered

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 27 to 9 (details)

To send the bill back to the House "stripped" of all actual appropriations. This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

Received in the House

May 14, 2014

May 15, 2014

Passed in the House 0 to 109 (details)

To concur with a Senate-passed version of the bill. The vote sends the bill to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differences.

Received in the Senate

June 11, 2014

Passed in the Senate 21 to 17 (details)

The final education budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct 1, 2014. A separate House budget authorizes the rest of state government spending (House Bill 5313).<br> This bill would authorize $13.870 billion for K-12 public schools, a $509 million increase. It also appropriates $1.516 billion for state universities, compared to $1.430 billion the prior year; and $364 million for community colleges, up from $335 million.<br> The bill increases per-student "foundation allowances" for higher-spending K-12 school districts by $50, and $125 for lower spending ones. However, distributions to school districts are understated by around $400 per student compared to pre-2012 budgets, because the state is now depositing a portion of their pension costs directly into the system (rather than the previous practice of sending it all to the districts to deposit). Reportedly, the gap between funding at the highest and lowest spending districts has decreased to $848, compared to around $2,300 when the Proposal A school finance overhaul was approved in 1994.

Received in the House

June 11, 2014

Passed in the House 60 to 50 (details)

The final education budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct 1, 2014. A separate House budget authorizes the rest of state government spending (House Bill 5313).<br> This bill would authorize $13.870 billion for K-12 public schools, a $509 million increase. It also appropriates $1.516 billion for state universities, compared to $1.430 billion the prior year; and $364 million for community colleges, up from $335 million.<br>The bill increases per-student "foundation allowances" for higher-spending K-12 school districts by $50, and $125 for lower spending ones. However, distributions to school districts are understated by around $400 per student compared to pre-2012 budgets, because the state is now depositing a portion of their pension costs directly into the system (rather than the previous practice of sending it all to the districts to deposit). Reportedly, the gap between funding at the highest and lowest spending districts has decreased to $848, compared to around $2,300 when the Proposal A school finance overhaul was approved in 1994.

Signed by Gov. Rick Snyder

June 24, 2014