Introduced
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To provide a “template” or “place holder” for a Fiscal Year 2005-2006 School Aid budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended later to add them. Note: This was introduced the same week the House passed <a href=“http://www.michiganvotes.org/2005-HB-4831”>House Bill 4831</a>, an “omnibus” budget with the House’s version of parts of this budget, plus all departmental budgets. However, the Senate developed separate departmental budgets, Gov. Jennifer Granholm has recommended her own versions of separate budgets, and when this bill was introduced it was not known how all of that will be reconciled. This “placeholder” gives the House flexibility.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
To replace the executive proposal for this budget with one that expresses policy differences between the Republican majority in the House and Governor Jennifer Granholm on certain spending items and funding sources. Some of the features of the budget are: It agrees with the governor in increasing the per-pupil foundation grant to schools by $175. (The minimum grant has been $6,700 for three years, and the average is around $7,000.) It increases special education funding by $59 million to $1.291 billion (less than the governor proposes), gives Intermediate School Districts (ISDs) the same $77 million they received in 2005 for operations, and reduces but does not eliminate a laptop computers for sixth-graders program (which the governor recommends be eliminated). It does not increase the current year’s $314 million in “at risk” student funding by 10.5 percent, as proposed by the governor, but adds more than the governor proposed for adult education programs. $25 million for a proposed middle school mathematics program was reduced to $3 million by the Moore amendment. For much more detail see <a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/billanalysis/house/pdf/2005-HLA-4887-3.pdf">analysis</a> from the non-partisan House Fiscal Agency.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To remove a $250,000 approptiation for a disabled children's teaching material library at Central Michigan University.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To remove a $500,000 appropriation for the Charter School Development and Performance Institute at Central Michigan University.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To direct that certain funds be used for reading improvement, mentoring, cognitive development, and preschool to grade-four mentor-tutor reading programs.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To give an extra $100 per pupil to certain school districts that spend less than 10 percent of their revenue on administration, spend at least 60 percent on instruction, and whose students do well on state math and other tests.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To make the general fund the source for a $500,000 approptiation for the Charter School Development and Performance Institute at Central Michigan University; and eliminate a reference to a school aid stabilization fund in the appropriation for a laptop computers for sixth-graders program.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To revise the definition of "consortium" in a provision that requires smaller school districts to join a consortium with other districts so as to more efficiently provide various administrative and purchasing functions.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To provide schools receiving less than $7,200 per student in their basic foundation grants with an additional $25 per student, with the extra money coming out of a proposed middle school mathematics program.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To revise the adult education funding allocation for the Inkster school district.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $2.3 million for the "great parents, great start" program, in which government employees provide certain parents of children age 0-5 with "information on child development, methods to enhance parent/child interaction, access to needed community services, and learning opportunities".
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add a $100 "placeholder" that will facilitate adding a substantial grant to the Detroit School District to subsidize its <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2003-HB-4508">transition</a> back from a state-imposed reform school board to its previous school board system.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To provide extra money for certain school districts that elect not to levy the full amount of school operating millage they are authorized to levy, in the amount of the difference between the actual and potential local property tax receipts.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To prohibit the Detroit Schools District from closing any schools or reducing staff levels below those it had in 1998, for one year after the elected school board takes over on Jan. 1, 2006. Note: The number of students in the district has declined by approximately 20,000 in this period, to 141,600.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To give the Detroit School District an extra $87 million in each of the next three years, with the money coming from casino tax revenues.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To allow schools to use money appropriated for part time preschool programs for certain "at risk" children to instead enroll fewer children a more costly "school-day" program.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To give the Detroit School District extra money.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To not eliminate an extra $15 million that the Detroit School District has received in recent years.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To exempt the Inkster School District if a revenue shortfall in FY 2006 requires the governor to impose "pro-rated" school aid cuts.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To allocate an extra $500,000 to the Garden City School District. In 1993 the voters in this district defeated a millage renewal proposal, and the district's funding formula determined by the 1994 Proposal A reflects the lower local funding at the time.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To allocate an extra $500,000 to the Wyandotte School District. In 1993 the voters in this district defeated a millage renewal proposal, and the district's funding formula determined by the 1994 Proposal A reflects the lower local funding at the time.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Substitute offered
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To replace this version of the budget with the one <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2005-HB-4391">proposed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm</a>.
The substitute failed 52 to 58 (details)
Amendment offered
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To transfer $300,000 from "Michigan Virtual University" funding to the Detroit Public Library.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $15 million for the "great parents, great start" program, $15 million for Intermediate School Districts (ISDs) operations, and $23 million for government programs for "at risk" children. The extra money would be raised by repealing a number of tax exemptions, for example collecting more taxes on vending machine food purchases ($25 million), movie theaters motion picture rentals ($20 million), toll-free telephone services ($22 million), purchases of trucks used in interstate commerce ($16 million) and more.
The amendment failed 52 to 58 (details)
Amendment offered
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To add a $100 "placeholder" for grants to the Detroit Public Library.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Passed in the House 66 to 44 (details)
The House version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2005-2006 school aid budget. This appropriates $12.783 billion in gross spending, compared to $12.467 billion authorized for the current year, and $12.808 billion <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2005-HB-4391">proposed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm</a>. The budget increases the per-pupil foundation grant to schools by $175, with an extra $25 for schools receiving less than $7,200 per student.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Substitute offered
To strip out all of the appropriations of the House-passed version of the bill, leaving it in its orginal form as a "template" or "placeholder." See Senate-passed version for explanation.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 22 to 15 (details)
To send the bill back to the House "stripped" of all actual appropriations, leaving it in its original form as a "template" or "placeholder." This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.
Failed in the House 0 to 99 (details)
To concur with a Senate-passed version of the bill. The vote sends the bill to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differences.
Passed in the House 107 to 2 (details)
The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2005-2006 school aid budget. This appropriates $12.757 billion in gross spending, compared to $12.467 billion authorized for the previous year. The budget increases the per-pupil foundation grant to schools by $175. (The minimum grant has been $6,700 for three years, and the average is around $7,000.) State funding for Special Education is increased by $59 million, and adult education rises by $1 million. Funding for Intermediate School districts, “Section 20j” subsidies to wealthier districts, and “at risk” student programs are unchanged from the previous year. A “laptop computers for 6th graders” program is reduced but not eliminated. The budget contains just $63 million in General Fund money, down from $165 million the previous year.
Passed in the Senate 36 to 0 (details)
