2021 Senate Bill 83

Authorize school spending for the 2021-22 fiscal year

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 2, 2021

Introduced by Sen. Wayne Schmidt (R-37)

To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential school aid appropriation in the 2021-2022 fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2021. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include real ones.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 11, 2021

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-3) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

May 12, 2021

Amendment offered

To revise the detailed conditions and amounts attached to a number of programs and functions the bill would pay for.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Rosemary Bayer (D-12)

To strike a provision that would require district to provide specified amounts on in-person instruction.

The amendment failed 16 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Dayna Polehanki (D-7)

The amendment failed 16 to 20 (details)

Passed in the Senate 19 to 17 (details)

To appropriate $15.775 billion for K-12 schools in the 2021-22 fiscal year budget the begins Oct. 1, 2022. Of this, $1.882 billion is federal money.

Received in the House

May 13, 2021

May 19, 2021

Substitute offered by Rep. Thomas Albert (R-86)

The substitute passed by voice vote

May 20, 2021

Passed in the House 108 to 0 (details)

To send back to the Senate a substitute version of the bill that is "stripped" of all actual appropriations, and instead authorizes just $100 “placeholders.” This is part of a process for reconciling the House and Senate-passed department budgets for the next fiscal year.

Received in the Senate

May 25, 2021

May 26, 2021

Failed in the Senate 0 to 36 (details)

June 10, 2021

Received