Introduced
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To provide a “template” or “place holder” for a Fiscal Year 2017-2018 “Omnibus” school aid, higher education and community colleges 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 (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Amendment offered
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To make it a crime for a charter school board to hire a for-profit management company to operate a charter school.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To clarify a timing detail on funding for a study on preschool programs.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To adopt certain recommendations to increase school spending.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To increase funding for high schools by $36 per student, and reduce the amount given to charter schools that are online "cyber schools".
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To strip out $2.5 million allocated to reimburse private schools for the costs they incur meeting various unfunded state mandates.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To allocate $4.5 million for grants to schools for water testing and related infrastructure upgrades.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To increase operations grants to state universities.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To spend an extra $250,000 on grants to some districts to buy more "locally grown fruits and vegetables".
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To spend an extra $1.5 million on a Michigan State University fruit and vegetable processing teaching laboratory.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Substitute offered
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To adopt a version of this budget that expresses the fiscal and policy preferences of the Democratic in the House on various spending items and programs.
The substitute failed by voice vote
Passed in the House 60 to 47 (details)
The House version of the K-12 school aid, community college and university budgets for the fiscal year that begins Oct 1, 2017. A separate budget bill authorizes the rest of state government spending (House Bill 4323). This bill would appropriate a total of $16.324 billion, of which $1.838 billion is federal money. Of this total, $14.309 billion would go to K-12 public education, compared to $14.161 billion approved last year. Another $1.619 billion is for state universities, compared to $1.582 billion the prior year. Community colleges would get $395 million, the same as last year.
Referred to the Committee of the Whole
Passed in the Senate 27 to 10 (details)
To pass and send back to the House a version of this budget that contains no actual appropriations, leaving it as a "template" or "placeholder." This 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 107 (details)
To concur with a Senate-passed version of the bill. The vote will have the effect of sending the bill to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differences.
Received
Passed in the House 72 to 35 (details)
The final K-12 school aid, community college and university budgets for the fiscal year that begins Oct 1, 2017. This bill appropriates a $16.608 billion, of which $1.838 billion is federal money. Of this total, $14.580 billion would go to K-12 public education, compared to $14.161 billion approved last year. Another $1.629 billion is for state universities, compared to $1.582 billion the prior year. Community colleges would get $399 million, up from $395 million last year.<br> House Bill 4323 funds the rest of state government, and when combined with this it means the state will spend pend $56.5 billion next year, a 2.9 percent increase.
Passed in the Senate 23 to 14 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
