Bill Text: MI SB0266 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Education; financing; change in procedures for and distribution of regional enhancement property taxes; provide for under certain circumstances. Amends sec. 705 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.705).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-15 - Referred To Committee On Education [SB0266 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-SB0266-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 266

 

 

April 15, 2015, Introduced by Senator HANSEN and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

 

"The revised school code,"

 

by amending section 705 (MCL 380.705), as amended by 2003 PA 299.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 705. (1) Beginning in 1997, and in each year after 1997,

 

a regional enhancement property tax may be levied by an

 

intermediate school district at a rate not to exceed 3 mills to

 

enhance other state and local funding for local school district

 

operations if approved by a majority of the intermediate school

 

electors voting on the question.

 

     (2) If a resolution requesting that the question of a regional

 

enhancement property tax be submitted to the voters is adopted

 

within a 180-day period and transmitted to the intermediate school

 

board by 1 or more boards of its constituent school districts

 

representing a majority of the combined membership of the

 

constituent school districts as of the most recent pupil membership

 

count day and if those resolutions all contain an identical

 

specified number of mills to be levied under this section and an

 

identical specified number of years for which the tax shall be

 

levied, the question of levying a regional enhancement property tax

 

by the intermediate school district shall be placed on the ballot

 

by the intermediate school district at the next regular school

 

election held in each of the constituent districts. If the question

 

is to be submitted to the intermediate school electors of an

 

intermediate school district having a population of more than

 

1,400,000, the intermediate school board shall call a special

 

election to be held at the next state primary or general election.

 

If the resolution requirement is met more than 180 days before the

 

next regular school district elections, and if requested in the

 

resolutions, the intermediate school board shall submit the

 

question of levying a regional enhancement property tax within the

 

intermediate school district on the ballot at a special election

 

called by the intermediate school board for that purpose not

 

earlier than 90 days after the resolution requirements are met. If

 

a constituent district has entered into an agreement with an entity

 

for the entity to perform the functions and responsibilities of the

 

constituent district for operating a public school of the

 

constituent district, the pupils in membership in that public

 

school shall be counted as part of the membership of the

 

constituent district for the purposes of this subsection.

 

     (3) Not Subject to subsection (4), not later than 10 days

 

after receipt by the intermediate school district of the revenue

 

from the regional enhancement property tax, the intermediate school

 

district shall calculate and pay to each of its constituent school

 

districts an amount of the revenue calculated by dividing the total

 

amount of the revenue by the combined membership of the constituent

 

school districts within the intermediate district, as of the most

 

recent pupil membership count day, and multiplying that quotient by

 

the constituent school district's membership, as of the most recent

 

pupil membership count day for which a final department-audited

 

pupil count is available. If a constituent district has entered

 

into an agreement with an entity for the entity to perform the

 

functions and responsibilities of the constituent district for

 

operating a public school of the constituent district, the pupils

 

in membership in that public school shall be counted as part of the

 

membership of the constituent district for the purposes of this

 

subsection. Upon receipt of the revenue under this section that is

 

attributable to those pupils in that public school, the constituent

 

district shall transfer that revenue to the entity performing the

 

functions and responsibilities of the constituent district for

 

operating that public school.

 

     (4) If a school district has been dissolved under section 12

 

but retains a limited separate identity under section 12, that

 

school district is not eligible for payment of any revenue under

 

this section.

 

     (5) (4) Regional enhancement property tax under this section

 

may be levied for a term not to exceed 20 years, as specified in

 

the ballot question, and may be renewed for the same term with the

 

approval of a majority of the intermediate school electors voting

 

on the question.

 

     (6) (5) The question of levying a regional enhancement

 

property tax under this section shall be presented to the

 

intermediate school electors as a separate question.