2013 House Bill 4295: Adjust school budget projections, appropiate extra moneyPublic Act 116 of 2014
Introduced by Rep. Joseph Haveman R-Holland on February 20, 2013
To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential supplemental school aid appropriation for Fiscal Year 2012-2013. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.
Official Text and Analysis.
Referred to the House Appropriations Committee on February 20, 2013
Reported in the House on February 27, 2014
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered in the House on March 5, 2014
The substitute passed by voice vote in the House on March 5, 2014
Amendment offered by Rep. Bill Rogers R-Brighton on March 5, 2014
To spend $1.8 million for a contract to provide schools a “sustainable, interactive health and nutrition education platform and personal responsibility health behavior record” that would collect “personal use health behavior data that are cumulative and accessible in real time only to the user and those authorized by the user through a secure online dashboard.” It would also include “age- and developmentally appropriate self-monitoring through the recording of health habits, including, but not limited to, dietary intake and physical activity…that provides a personal responsibility health record,” and more. Parents would have to “opt in” for their children to be included.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on March 5, 2014
Amendment offered by Rep. Mike Shirkey R-Clark Lake on March 5, 2014
To require the proposal to provide students with "information technology education opportunities" be distributed to all community colleges.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on March 5, 2014
Amendment offered by Rep. Andy Schor D-Lansing on March 5, 2014
To appropriate $2 million for a year-round school pilot program.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on March 5, 2014
Amendment offered by Rep. Brandon Dillon D-Grand Rapids on March 5, 2014
To spend an extra $30 million various programs targeted at "at risk" students.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on March 5, 2014
Amendment offered by Rep. Brandon Dillon D-Grand Rapids on March 5, 2014
To make a few additional districts eligible for already-approved supplemental funding in excess of what the standard funding formula provides.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on March 5, 2014
Amendment offered by Rep. Stacy Erwin Oakes D-Saginaw on March 5, 2014
To increase the amount the bill would appropriate for transition costs related to dissolving the fiscally failed Buena Vista and Inkster school districts.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on March 5, 2014
Amendment offered by Rep. Stacy Erwin Oakes D-Saginaw on March 5, 2014
To increase the amount the bill would appropriate for transition costs related to dissolving the fiscally failed Buena Vista and Inkster school districts.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on March 5, 2014
Amendment offered by Rep. David Knezek D-Dearborn Heights on March 5, 2014
To not authorize using extra Buena Vista and Inkster school district dissolution money to tear down buildings.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on March 5, 2014
Amendment offered by Rep. David Knezek D-Dearborn Heights on March 5, 2014
To not limit the extra Buena Vista and Inkster school district dissolution money to $2.5 million each.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on March 5, 2014
Amendment offered by Rep. David Knezek D-Dearborn Heights on March 5, 2014
To require all districts eligible for extra Buena Vista and Inkster school district dissolution money the bill authorizes to get some of it.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on March 5, 2014
Amendment offered by Rep. Bill Rogers R-Brighton on March 5, 2014
To not appropriate $1.8 million for the student nutrition and behavior tracking software proposed by the previous Rogers amendment, but instead authorize the program while leaving the actual amount to be decided later.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on March 5, 2014
Amendment offered by Rep. Bill Rogers R-Brighton on March 5, 2014
To combine the two previous Rogers amendments inserting a nominal "placeholder" appropriation for a student nutrition and behavior tracking software program.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on March 5, 2014
To make adjustments to the school aid budget for the current fiscal year to reflect lower than expected student counts, and appropriate extra money for various purposes, including a $51.7 federal "early learning challenge grant" the state applied for. This will pay for government programs that are "culturally, linguistically, and developmentally appropriate...for high-needs children from birth to kindergarten entry" and that "promote children’s physical, social, and
emotional health" among other things; training for employees who perform these activities; monitoring systems and more. The bill also authorizes a student nutrition and behavior tracking software program for schools. It appropriates $5 million for transition costs related to dissolving the fiscally failed Buena Vista and Inkster school districts; $2 million for a year-round school pilot program; $3.9 million for contracts to provide students "information technology education opportunities; and more.
Received in the Senate on March 6, 2014
Referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee on March 6, 2014
Reported in the Senate on March 20, 2014
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered in the Senate on March 20, 2014
To adopt a version of the bill that does not permit school districts to reduce the required number of days and hours of instruction in the 2013-2014 school year due to harsh winter weather, and does not include a student nutrition and behavior tracking software program authorized by the House.
The substitute passed by voice vote in the Senate on March 20, 2014
To make adjustments to the school aid budget for the current fiscal year to reflect lower than expected student counts, and appropriate extra money for various purposes, including a $51.7 federal "early learning challenge grant" the state applied for. This will pay for government programs that are "culturally, linguistically, and developmentally appropriate...for high-needs children from birth to kindergarten entry" and that "promote children’s physical, social, and
emotional health" among other things; training for employees who perform these activities; monitoring systems and more. It appropriates $5 million for transition costs related to dissolving the fiscally failed Buena Vista and Inkster school districts; $2 million for a year-round school pilot program; $2 million for class size reductions; $3.9 million for contracts to provide students "information technology education opportunities; and more.
Received in the House on March 20, 2014
Substitute offered by Rep. Bill Rogers R-Brighton on March 26, 2014
The substitute passed by voice vote in the House on March 26, 2014
Amendment offered by Rep. Brandon Dillon D-Grand Rapids on March 26, 2014
To add back the $30 million in extra spending approved by the Senate but removed by the House for grants to schools with more "at risk" students, and make some other changes in school funding formula details.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on March 26, 2014
Amendment offered by Rep. Brandon Dillon D-Grand Rapids on March 26, 2014
To add back the $2 million the Senate added and the House removed for class size reduction grants.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on March 26, 2014
To adopt a version of the bill that does not contain $30 million in extra spending approved by the Senate for grants to schools with more "at risk" students, or $2 million the Senate added for class size reduction grants. This version also increases to $750,000 a cap on how much a single school district can get from a year-round school pilot program grant the bill funds, and does not authorize a student nutrition and behavior tracking software program for schools included in the original House version.
Received in the Senate on March 27, 2014
Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood D-Taylor on March 27, 2014
To add back the $2 million the Senate added and the House removed for class size reduction grants.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the Senate on March 27, 2014
Moved to reconsider by Sen. Tupac Hunter D-Detroit on March 27, 2014
The vote by which the amendments were adopted.
Amendment offered in the Senate on March 27, 2014
To add back the $2 million the Senate added and the House removed for class size reduction grants.
Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood D-Taylor on March 27, 2014
To add back the $30 million in extra spending approved by the Senate but removed by the House for grants to schools with more "at risk" students, and make some other changes in school funding formula details.
To concur with the House-passed version of the bill.
Signed by Gov. Rick Snyder on April 7, 2014