Introduced
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The executive recommendation for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2005-2006 school aid budget. This appropriates $12.81 billion in gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, and more), compared to $12.53 billion, which was the FY 2004-2005 amount enrolled in 2004. It would increase the state foundation grants to schools by $175 per pupil. Special education spending would rise to $1.38 billion, and Intermediate School District appropriations to $80 million. Much more information on Michigan’s budget is available at <a href="http://www.mackinac.org/article.asp?ID=4964">Hot Topics: Michigan’s Budget Challenge</a> at www.mackinac.org/4964.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
To replace the executive proposal for this budget with one that expresses policy differences between the Republican-majority in the Senate and Governor Jennifer Granholm on certain spending items and funding sources. The Senate concurs with the governor's proposed $175 per student foundation grant increase and her special education increase, but does not concur with her proposal to cut the "Freedom to Learn" student laptop computer program and to increase "at risk" student funding. The Senate also cuts funding for two-year kindergarten programs, and cuts an extra $15 million that had been given to the Detroit School District in the last several years. The budget increases depend in part on extra revenue that a proposed increase in state tax auditors is supposed to generate. For much more detail see <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/billanalysis/senate/pdf/2005-SFA-0279-F.pdf">analysis</a> from the non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $6 million for two-year kindergarten programs.
The amendment failed 18 to 19 (details)
Amendment offered
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To allow the Detroit school district to use up to 15 percent of the extra money it gets for "at risk" students (those who qualify for the federal free lunch program) to provide school security.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 33 to 4 (details)
The Senate version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2005-2006 school aid budget. This appropriates $12.73 billion in gross spending, compared to the FY 2004-2005 amount of $12.47 billion. See Senate substitute for some highlights.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
Replace the Senate-passed version of this budget with one that “strips” all actual appropriations. This version was subsequently superceded by another substitute that uses the bill to correct a "glitch" in the current School Aid budget.
The substitute failed by voice vote
Substitute offered
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To replace the previous version of the bill with one that corrects a mismatch between certain appropriations and their specified revenue source in the current school aid budget.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To allow for one more year an Intermediate School District (ISD) funding scheme in which certain special education staff are employed by both the ISD and the regular school district. This "shared-employment" allows the ISD (but not the staffers) to get more state money.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Passed in the House 106 to 0 (details)
To use the bill as a legislative "vehicle" to correct a mismatch between certain appropriations and their specified revenue source in the current school aid budget. The bill no longer proposes an FY 2005-2006 school aid budget.
Passed in the Senate 36 to 0 (details)
