2021 House Bill 4400 / Public Act 86

Appropriations: 2021-2022 education budget

Introduced in the House

March 2, 2021

Introduced by Rep. Mark Huizenga (R-74)

To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential fiscal year 2021-22 higher education budget. This bill contains nominal appropriations only, but may be amended at a later date to replace them with real money.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

The House version of the 2021-2022 Higher education budget. This would appropriate $1.708 billion in gross spending, of which $128 million is federal money, with the rest coming from state taxes and fees. The budget would change the system for allocating this money to Michigan's 15 state universities to one based on the number of Michigan residents each institution enrolls, instead of a system based on allocations set years ago based on subjective criteria.

May 11, 2021

Reported without amendment

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

May 12, 2021

Amendment offered by Rep. John Reilly (R-46)

To clarify that a ban on state universities imposing a vaccine mandate applies to students moving into dorms and other university-run housing.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Substitute offered by Rep. Tenisha Yancey (D-1)

To adopt a substitute version of the bill that reflects Democratic caucus preferences.

The substitute failed by voice vote

Passed in the House 57 to 50 (details)

The House version of the 2021-2022 Higher education budget. This would appropriate $1.708 billion in gross spending, of which $128 million is federal money, with the rest coming from state taxes and fees. The budget would change the system for allocating this money to Michigan's 15 state universities to one based on the number of Michigan residents each institution enrolls, instead of a system based on allocations set years ago based on subjective criteria.

Received in the Senate

May 13, 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 1 to 108 (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.

Sept. 21, 2021

Received

Sept. 22, 2021

Passed in the House 97 to 8 (details)

The state education budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2021. The bill appropriates $19.218 billion for all state education spending. This includes $431.9 million for community colleges, $1.808 billion for the state's four-year colleges and universities, and $1.978 billion for K-12 public schools.<br> When the non-education spending authorized in Senate Bill 82 is added, the combined budgets propose spending a grand total of $68.9 billion in the 2021-22 fiscal year, which is $10.4 billion more than the state has ever spent prior to the pandemic. That includes $3.6 billion more in state spending, a 10.4% increase, and $6.7 billion more in federal spending, a 28.4% increase.

Received in the Senate

Sept. 22, 2021

Passed in the Senate 34 to 2 (details)

Signed with line-item veto by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Sept. 29, 2021

Received in the House

Sept. 29, 2021

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations