HOUSE BILL No. 4979

 

 

September 19, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Camilleri, Chang, Wittenberg, Pagan, Geiss, Yanez, Green, Moss, Sneller, Ellison, Rabhi, Sowerby, Clemente, Hoadley, LaGrand, Durhal, Greimel, Liberati, Hammoud and Gay-Dagnogo and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

 

     A bill to amend 1979 PA 94, entitled

 

"The state school aid act of 1979,"

 

by amending section 11 (MCL 388.1611), as amended by 2017 PA 108,

 

and by adding section 78.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 11. (1) For the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017,

 

there is appropriated for the public schools of this state and

 

certain other state purposes relating to education the sum of

 

$12,069,644,300.00 from the state school aid fund, the sum of

 

$179,100,000.00 from the general fund, an amount not to exceed

 

$72,000,000.00 from the community district education trust fund

 

created under section 12 of the Michigan trust fund act, 2000 PA

 

489, MCL 12.262, and an amount not to exceed $100.00 from the water


emergency reserve fund. For the fiscal year ending September 30,

 

2018, there is appropriated for the public schools of this state

 

and certain other state purposes relating to education the sum of

 

$12,543,130,300.00 from the state school aid fund, the sum of

 

$215,000,000.00 $224,000,000.00 from the general fund, an amount

 

not to exceed $72,000,000.00 from the community district education

 

trust fund created under section 12 of the Michigan trust fund act,

 

2000 PA 489, MCL 12.262, an amount not to exceed $23,100,000.00

 

from the MPSERS retirement obligation reform reserve fund, and an

 

amount not to exceed $100.00 from the water emergency reserve fund.

 

In addition, all available federal funds are appropriated each

 

fiscal year for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2017 and

 

September 30, 2018.

 

     (2) The appropriations under this section shall be allocated

 

as provided in this article. Money appropriated under this section

 

from the general fund shall be expended to fund the purposes of

 

this article before the expenditure of money appropriated under

 

this section from the state school aid fund.

 

     (3) Any general fund allocations under this article that are

 

not expended by the end of the state fiscal year are transferred to

 

the school aid stabilization fund created under section 11a.

 

     Sec. 78. From the general fund appropriation in section 11,

 

there is allocated for 2017-2018 an amount not to exceed

 

$9,000,000.00 to districts for water and air quality testing.

 

     Enacting section 1. In accordance with section 30 of article

 

IX of the state constitution of 1963, total state spending from

 

state sources on school aid under article I of the state school aid


act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1601 to 388.1772, as amended by

 

2017 PA 108 and this amendatory act, for fiscal year 2017-2018 is

 

estimated at $12,862,230,400.00, and state appropriations for

 

school aid to be paid to local units of government for fiscal year

 

2017-2018 are estimated at $12,686,072,800.00.