An act to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled “An act to provide a system of public instruction and elementary and secondary schools; to revise, consolidate, and clarify the laws relating to elementary and secondary education; to provide for the organization, regulation, and maintenance of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to prescribe rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to provide for the regulation of school teachers and certain other school employees; to provide for school elections and to prescribe powers and duties with respect thereto; to provide for the levy and collection of taxes; to provide for the borrowing of money and issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness; to establish a fund and provide for expenditures from that fund; to make appropriations for certain purposes; to provide for and prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, the state board of education, and certain other boards and officials; to provide for licensure of boarding schools; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 1212 (MCL 380.1212), as amended by 2016 PA 319.
Amends section 1212 (MCL 380.1212) of the Revised School Code. Section 1212 specifies the purposes for which a sinking fund tax, if approved by voters, may be used. Under current law, depending on the date of authorization, the sinking fund tax may be used for the purchase of real estate for the construction of school buildings, repair of school buildings, improvement of school security, and/or purchase of technology resources and upgrades. As passed by the Senate, in addition to the aforementioned items, SB 63 would allow a sinking fund tax to be used for the purchase of student transportation vehicles, maintenance equipment for those vehicles, trucks and vans under the Michigan Vehicle Code to carry equipment and personnel for the maintenance of school buildings, and maintenance equipment for those trucks and vans. If passed, SB 63 could lead to an increase in sinking fund millage rates and/or the number of districts creating sinking funds.
Co-sponsored by Sens.
Referred to the Committee on Education
Reported with substitute S-1
Referred to the Committee of the Whole
Reported with substitute S-1
Substitute S-1 concurred in by voice vote
1. Amend page 3, line 5, after “years.” by inserting “For a sinking fund tax authorized on or after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this sentence, the sinking fund tax may be levied each year for a period not to exceed either of the following, whichever is less:
(i) The life of the authorized purpose for which the tax was levied.
(ii) 60 months.”.
The amendment failed 17 to 21 (details)
Passed in the Senate 28 to 10 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Education
Reported without amendment
1. Amend page 3, line 4, after “2017” by inserting “and before the effective date of the amendatory act that added subparagraph (i)”.
2. Amend page 3, line 5, after “years.” by inserting “For a sinking fund tax authorized on or after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this sentence, the sinking fund tax may be levied each year for a period not to exceed either of the following, whichever is less:
(i) The life of the authorized purpose for which the tax was levied.
(ii) 60 months.”.
The amendment failed by voice vote
1. Amend page 2, line 14, after “vehicles” by striking out the balance of the subsection through line 21 and inserting a period.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Passed in the House 61 to 45 (details)
Motion to give immediate effect
by
The motion prevailed by voice vote
Motion to give immediate effect
The motion prevailed by voice vote
