2021 House Bill 4407

Authorize school spending for the 2021-22 fiscal year

Introduced in the House

March 2, 2021

Introduced by Rep. Brad Paquette (R-78)

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 (H-4) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

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

To revise a funding formula based on special education revenue in a state grant to ISDs that levy a special education.

The amendment passed by voice vote

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

To appropriate $2.5 million to upgrade school information and reporting systems.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Amos O’Neal (D-95)

To increase per pupil state foundation allowance amounts.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Nate Shannon (D-25)

To add $10 million school mental health spending.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Regina Weiss (D-27)

To revise details in a line item that temporarily gives more to schools with declining enrollment.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Passed in the House 89 to 18 (details)

To appropriate $16.376 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 Senate

May 12, 2021

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

May 19, 2021

Passed in the Senate 20 to 16 (details)

To send the bill back to the House "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 House

May 19, 2021

May 26, 2021

Failed in the House 0 to 109 (details)

To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill. The failed vote 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.