2003 House Bill 4032 ↩

House Roll Call 147: The amendment was adopted

To appropriate sufficient general fund dollars to make up a current-year School Aid Fund deficit caused by actual tax reciepts being less than previously appropriated grants to school districts. The amendment is in response to a May 13, 2003 revenue estimation which shows a current year school aid funding shortfall of some $91 million. It expresses a concensus betweeen the legislature and the governor that it is too late in the school year to cut funding to school districts. There is not a concensus regarding the source of the money needed to make up the shortfall.