2019 House Bill 4236 / Public Act 62

Appropriations: Higher Education

Introduced in the House

Feb. 26, 2019

Introduced by Rep. Scott VanSingel (R-100)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2019-20 Higher Education budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

June 12, 2019

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

June 13, 2019

Amendment offered by Rep. Padma Kuppa (D-41)

To increase the appropriations to each university.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Tommy Brann (R-77)

To increase the appropriations to each university, and increase the amount received by universities for providing Indian tuition waivers.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Beau LaFave (R-108)

To cut university operations funding by 25 percent if the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) gives the school a "yellow" rating for imposing campus "speech code" and related restrictions, and a 50 percent cut if FIRE gives the school a “red” rating for restricting free speech and engaging in viewpoint discrimination. FIRE has issued “yellow” ratings on Ferris State university, Grand Valley, Michigan State, Oakland, Saginaw Valley and Wayne State universities, and to Central, Western, Northern and Eastern state universities, and Western Michigan University. All three University of Michigan campuses have been deemed “red” zones by FIRE, along with Lake Superior State University.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Passed in the House 56 to 53 (details)

The House version of the fiscal year 2019-2020 Higher Education budget. This would appropriate $1.68 billion in gross spending, of which $123 million is federal money, with the rest is from state taxes and fees. The budget would provide a funding increase of just 1 percent to individual universities.

Received in the Senate

June 18, 2019

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

Passed in the Senate 22 to 15 (details)

To "zero-out" all of the appropriations in the House-passed version of this budget, leaving it as just a "shell" or "placeholder." This is a procedural device used for launching negotiations over the differences between the House and Senate budgets, and eventually for negotiating a final budget between a Republican-controlled legislature and a Democratic governor.

Received in the House

June 18, 2019

June 19, 2019

Failed in the House 1 to 108 (details)

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

Motion to reconsider by Rep. Triston Cole (R-105)

The vote by which the bill was passed.

The motion passed by voice vote

Received

Failed in the House 0 to 109 (details)

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

Sept. 17, 2019

Received

Received in the Senate

Sept. 24, 2019

Passed in the Senate 20 to 18 (details)

The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year 2019-2020 Higher Education budget. This would appropriate $1.685 billion in gross spending, compared to $1.669 billion enrolled the previous year. Some $128 million of this budget is federal money. Part of each school's funding would be contingent on not increasing tuition and fees more than 4.4% or $587, whichever is greater.

Received in the House

Sept. 24, 2019

Passed in the House 58 to 51 (details)

Signed with line-item veto by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Sept. 30, 2019

Received in the House

Oct. 2, 2019

Oct. 8, 2019

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations