2011 Senate Bill 197 / Public Act 299

Appropriations: Supplemental school aid budget

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 24, 2011

Introduced by Sen. Roger Kahn (R-32)

To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential supplemental school aid appropriation for Fiscal Year 2010-2011.This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

Dec. 6, 2011

Substitute offered

To replace the previous version of the bill with one that contains actual appropriations. See Senate-passed version for details.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 35 to 0 (details)

To appropriate $67.1 million in unspent money from the previous year’s school aid budget, plus $27.5 million in new money, to cover approximately $94 million in additional state dollars needed under the school aid disribution formula to meet proposed per-pupil school spending levels for the year given local property tax shortfalls generated by falling property assessments. The bill also adds a small amount for special education funding.

Received in the House

Dec. 6, 2011

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

Dec. 14, 2011

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the amendment be adopted and that the bill then pass.

Amendment offered

To eliminate a "tie bar" to House Bill 4445, which would appropriate $12.5 million for programs intended to assess the effectiveness of kingergarten and the state’s early childhood education programs, and “prospectively” appropriate $70 million in federal money for “early learning” programs, contingent on the state winning a competitive “Race to the Top” grant. Without the tie-bar, that bill need not become law for this one to.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Substitute offered by Rep. Ellen Lipton (D-27)

To increase the current-year per-pupil state aid amount that determines funding levels to public schools.

The substitute failed by voice vote

Passed in the House 105 to 2 (details)

To appropriate $67.1 million in unspent money from the previous year’s school aid budget, plus $27.5 million in new money, to cover approximately $94 million in additional state dollars needed under the school aid disribution formula to meet proposed per-pupil school spending levels for the year given local property tax shortfalls generated by falling property assessments. The bill also adds a small amount for special education funding.

In the Senate

Dec. 15, 2011

Motion by Sen. Arlan Meekhof (R-30)

That rule 3.311 be suspended to permit reconsideration of the vote by which the House amendment was concurred in.

The motion passed by voice vote

Received

To concur with the House-passed version of the bill.

Passed in the Senate 38 to 0 (details)

Signed by Gov. Rick Snyder

Dec. 21, 2011