2013 House Bill 4813: Establish procedures for dissolving fiscally failed school districtPublic Act 96 of 2013
Introduced by Rep. David E. Rutledge D-Ypsilanti on June 6, 2013
To establish criteria and procedures for dissolving a school district that has become so fiscally unviable that it can no longer educate students, and for attaching the failed district’s territory to one or more nearby school districts.
Official Text and Analysis.
Referred to the House Education Committee on June 6, 2013
Reported in the House on June 13, 2013
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-4) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered in the House on June 13, 2013
The substitute passed by voice vote in the House on June 13, 2013
Amendment offered by Rep. David Knezek D-Dearborn Heights on June 13, 2013
To require that in assigning students to a nearby school district consideration be given to how many student both districts are in “special education” programs, in addition to free lunch programs for students from low income households.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on June 13, 2013
Amendment offered by Rep. Bill Rogers R-Brighton on June 13, 2013
To not include for three years the test scores of newly transferred students under the bill in the performance evaluations of the teachers to whom they are assigned.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on June 13, 2013
Amendment offered by Rep. David E. Rutledge D-Ypsilanti on June 13, 2013
To require that for two years any new teachers hired by the districts to which the students from the fiscally failed district are transferred be ones who worked in that district, in order of seniority, and that they get any seniority-based rights and benefits in the new district as if they had worked there all along.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on June 13, 2013
Amendment offered by Rep. David Knezek D-Dearborn Heights on June 13, 2013
To give the local intermediate school district the power to decide which of the failed district's buildings will become part of which receiving district.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on June 13, 2013
Amendment offered by Rep. Tim Greimel D-Auburn Hills on June 13, 2013
To revise details of how the new school district boundaries would be drawn, explicitly taking into account the relative pupil counts of all the contiguous districts.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on June 13, 2013
Amendment offered by Rep. Tim Greimel D-Auburn Hills on June 13, 2013
To establish that buildings and property of the dissolved district automatically become the property of a receiving district in which they located.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on June 13, 2013
Amendment offered by Rep. Lisa Lyons R-Alto on June 13, 2013
To clarify that the "debts" of the dissolved school district also include any amounts payable to the school employee pension system.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on June 13, 2013
Amendment offered by Rep. Ben Glardon R-Owosso on June 13, 2013
To include in the criteria that must be met for a school district to be dissolved a requirement that there had been a 10 percent drop in the number of students over the preceding year.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on June 13, 2013
Amendment offered by Rep. Bill Rogers R-Brighton on June 13, 2013
To restrict using the test scores of newly transferred students under the bill in the performance evaluations of the teachers to whom they are assigned.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on June 13, 2013
Substitute offered by Rep. Stacy Erwin Oakes D-Saginaw on June 13, 2013
The substitute failed by voice vote in the House on June 13, 2013
To establish criteria and procedures for dissolving a school district that has become so fiscally unviable that it can no longer educate students, and for attaching the failed district’s territory to one or more nearby school districts. The bill was introduced after the Buena Vista and Inkster school districts reached this state shortly before the end of the 2012-2013 school year.
Received in the Senate on June 18, 2013
Referred to the Senate on June 18, 2013
Substitute offered in the Senate on June 19, 2013
The substitute passed by voice vote in the Senate on June 19, 2013
Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood D-Taylor on June 19, 2013
To require that in assigning students to a nearby school district consideration be given to how many student both districts are in “special education” programs, in addition to free lunch programs for students from low income households.
Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood D-Taylor on June 19, 2013
To require the local intermediate school district to be consulted before dissolving a fiscally failed school district.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the Senate on June 19, 2013
Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood D-Taylor on June 19, 2013
To require the "individualized education plan" of a high school student in the failed school district (which allows a student to avoid harder courses required by the state graduation requirements) to be maintained by the student's new school.
Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood D-Taylor on June 19, 2013
To require that for two years any new teachers hired by the districts to which the students from the fiscally failed district are transferred be ones who worked in that district, in order of seniority, and that they get any seniority-based rights and benefits in the new district as if they had worked there all along.
Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood D-Taylor on June 19, 2013
To require a special election be held to elect a new school board covering the expanded area of jurisdiction of the school districts receiving the students from the failed district, and that this take place before the receiving district starts educating any students from the failed district.
Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood D-Taylor on June 19, 2013
To place a school district whose enrollment has declined 75 percent in the preceding fours years under the governance of the local intermediate school district.
Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood D-Taylor on June 19, 2013
To require U.S. Department of Justice to pre-approve the dissolution of the Buena Vista school district, because it is a "protected jurisdiction" under the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood D-Taylor on June 19, 2013
To provide an appeal process and "full due process protections" for the fiscally failed school districts being dissolved.
Motion by Sen. Arlan Meekhof R-West Olive on June 19, 2013
That the bill be given immediate effect.
Received in the House on June 20, 2013
To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill.
Signed by Gov. Rick Snyder on July 2, 2013