2026 Senate Bill 903 / Public Act 22

School aid: other; requirements for districts to receive weighted funding; provide for.

An act to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled “An act to provide a system of public instruction and elementary and secondary schools; to revise, consolidate, and clarify the laws relating to elementary and secondary education; to provide for the organization, regulation, and maintenance of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to prescribe rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to provide for the regulation of school teachers and certain other school employees; to provide for school elections and to prescribe powers and duties with respect thereto; to provide for the levy and collection of taxes; to provide for the borrowing of money and issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness; to establish a fund and provide for expenditures from that fund; to make appropriations for certain purposes; to provide for and prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, the state board of education, and certain other boards and officials; to provide for licensure of boarding schools; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” (MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1280h.

AI Analysis – Experimental

Requires Michigan school districts receiving certain state funds to implement evidence-based supports for student achievement, particularly for English language learners, with new accountability, reporting, and instructional standards.

Introduced in the Senate

April 21, 2026

Introduced by Sen. Darrin Camilleri (D-4)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 29, 2026

Discharged from committee

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

April 30, 2026

Reported with substitute S-2

Substitute S-2 concurred in by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 23 to 14 (details)

Received in the House

April 30, 2026

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

July 2, 2026

Discharged from committee

July 3, 2026

Substitute H-1 offered by Rep. Tim Kelly (R-93)

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 101 to 7 (details)

Motion to give immediate effect by Rep. Bryan Posthumus (R-90)

The motion prevailed by voice vote

Received in the Senate

July 3, 2026

Substitute H-2 concurred in 24 to 12 (details)

Motion to give immediate effect by Sen. Sam Singh (D-28)

The motion prevailed by voice vote

Signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

July 21, 2026