To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential supplemental multidepartment appropriation for Fiscal Year 2016-2017. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.   Official Text and Analysis.

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

To replace the previous version of the bill with one that uses this as a "vehicle" bill for a partial bailout of the insolvent Detroit public school system.

To not make the appropriation contingent on including the Detroit school system under a financial reform oversight panel created for the city of Detroit as a condition of a state bailout given to the city.

To not allow the appropriated money to be used to fund the operations of a state-appointed emergency manager.

To appropriate $48.7 million to keep the insolvent Detroit school district afloat until the end of the current school year. This is essentially a "downpayment" on a larger bailout package whose details have yet to find a consensus (the House majority wants more education reforms). The bill essentially "borrows" the money from a state account used to pay for college scholarships, and also places the Detroit school district under the same state oversight commission created to oversee the city after its 2014 bailout(see House Bill 5385).

To clarify provisions dealing with state oversight of the Detroit school district.

To appropriate $48.7 million to keep the insolvent Detroit school district afloat until the end of the current school year. This is essentially a "down-payment" on a larger bailout package whose details have yet to find a consensus (the House majority wants more education reforms, and is not friendly toward Senate-passed bills that potentially restrict the expansion of school choice in the city).

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