2022 Senate Bill 845 / Public Act 144

Appropriations: Department of Education

Introduced in the Senate

Jan. 20, 2022

Introduced by Sen. Wayne Schmidt (R-37)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2022-23 Department Of Education budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 11, 2022

Passed in the Senate 21 to 12 (details)

To adopt a version of the budget that contains no appropriations, as a means of advancing the process of both houses passing a single budget.

Received in the House

May 11, 2022

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 18, 2022

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

To replace the bill with one that "zeroes-out" the specific appropriation amounts passed by the Senate.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 58 to 48 (details)

To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations except $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 19, 2022

Failed in the Senate 0 to 36 (details)

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

Received in the House

May 24, 2022

July 1, 2022

Passed in the House 99 to 7 (details)

Received in the Senate

July 1, 2022

Passed in the Senate 35 to 2 (details)

To concur with a House-Senate conference report budget that would appropriate $22,155,110,100 for public schools, state universities and community colleges in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 2022, of which $13.624 billion is state general fund revenue. K-12 public schools would get $22.155 billion, community colleges $530 million, and state universities $2.022 billion..

Signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

July 14, 2022