Introduced
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To provide a “template” or “place holder” for a Fiscal Year 2014-2015 K-12 School Aid budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To increase spending to schools with a high proportion of lower income students, and give school districts more money to cover their portion of annual pension fund contributions.
The amendment failed 16 to 22 (details)
Amendment offered
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To give extra money to school districts with declining enrollment.
The amendment failed 13 to 25 (details)
Amendment offered
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To cut the amount allocated to online "cyberschools".
The amendment failed 16 to 22 (details)
Amendment offered
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To mandate that a charter school management company contracted to manage the schools in a fiscally failed school district (Muskegon Heights) and was unable to fully execute the terms of the contract to repay the management fees it collected.
The amendment failed 16 to 22 (details)
Amendment offered
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To require school districts to include in reports they must file information about all individual credit cards the district uses, and the costs of reimbursed out-of-state travel by administrators.
The amendment passed 38 to 0 (details)
Amendment offered
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To revise many of the provisions of the school budget in ways that would in general replace the spending and policy preferences of the Republican majority with those of the Democratic minority.
The amendment failed 14 to 24 (details)
Passed in the Senate 26 to 12 (details)
The Senate version of the K-12 school aid budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct 1, 2014. It would appropriate $13.73 billion for K-12 public schools, compared to $13.36 billion originally appropriated for the prior year.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Substitute offered
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To adopt a version of the budget that contains no appropriations, but is instead intended to launch negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 108 to 0 (details)
To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations. This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.
Failed in the Senate 0 to 37 (details)
Received
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
