Bill Text: MI SB0298 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Appropriations; community colleges; community and junior colleges; provide for fiscal year 2009-2010. Creates appropriation act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-03 - Referred To Committee On Appropriations [SB0298 Detail]

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SENATE BILL No. 298

 

 

EXECUTIVE BUDGET BILL

 

 

March 3, 2009, Introduced by Senator CLARK-COLEMAN and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

 

 

 

     A bill to make appropriations for community colleges and

 

certain state purposes related to education for the fiscal year

 

ending September 30, 2010; to provide for the expenditure of those

 

appropriations; to establish or continue certain funds, programs,

 

and categories; and to prescribe the powers and duties of certain

 

state departments, institutions, agencies, employees, and officers.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS

 

     Sec. 101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this bill,

 

the amounts listed in this part are appropriated for community

 

colleges and certain other state purposes relating to education for

 

the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, from the funds indicated

 


in this part. The following is a summary of the appropriations in

 

this part:

 

COMMUNITY COLLEGES

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY:

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $    299,360,500

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers............................................                 0

 

ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION........................... $    299,360,500

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................                 0

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Total local revenues...................................                 0

 

Total private revenues.................................                 0

 

Total other state restricted revenues..................                 0

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $    299,360,500

 

   Sec. 102. OPERATIONS

 

Alpena Community College............................... $      5,126,100

 

Bay de Noc Community College...........................         5,178,400

 

Delta College..........................................        13,751,600

 

Glen Oaks Community College............................         2,304,800

 

Gogebic Community College..............................         4,275,200

 

Grand Rapids Community College.........................        17,219,800

 

Henry Ford Community College...........................        20,898,900

 

Jackson Community College..............................        11,542,300

 

Kalamazoo Valley Community College.....................        11,888,600

 

Kellogg Community College..............................         9,311,800

 


Kirtland Community College.............................         2,842,800

 

Lake Michigan College..................................         5,012,100

 

Lansing Community College..............................        29,762,500

 

Macomb Community College...............................        31,773,900

 

Mid Michigan Community College.........................         4,289,200

 

Monroe County Community College........................         4,142,800

 

Montcalm Community College.............................         2,981,600

 

C.S. Mott Community College............................        15,016,400

 

Muskegon Community College.............................         8,518,600

 

North Central Michigan College.........................         2,893,600

 

Northwestern Michigan College..........................         8,682,000

 

Oakland Community College..............................        20,133,700

 

St. Clair County Community College.....................         6,729,800

 

Schoolcraft College....................................        11,767,000

 

Southwestern Michigan College..........................         6,276,900

 

Washtenaw Community College............................        12,149,000

 

Wayne County Community College.........................        15,889,900

 

West Shore Community College...........................         2,198,500

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $    292,557,800

 

    Appropriated from:

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $    292,557,800

 

Sec. 103. GRANTS

 

At-risk student success program........................ $      3,322,700

 

Renaissance zone tax reimbursement funding.............         3,480,000

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $      6,802,700

 

    Appropriated from:

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $      6,802,700

 


 

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

     Sec. 201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state

 

constitution of 1963, total state spending from state resources

 

under part 1 for fiscal year 2009-2010 is $299,360,500.00 and state

 

spending from state resources to be paid to local units of

 

government for fiscal year 2009-2010 is $299,360,500.00. The

 

itemized statement below identifies appropriations from which

 

spending to local units of government will occur:

 

Operations............................................. $    292,557,800

 

At-risk student success program........................         3,322,700

 

Renaissance zone tax reimbursement program.............         3,480,000

 

TOTAL.................................................. $    299,360,500

 

     Sec. 202. The appropriations authorized under this bill are

 

subject to the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101

 

to 18.1594.

 

     Sec. 203. Unless otherwise specified, a community college

 

receiving appropriations in part 1 and the department of energy,

 

labor and economic growth shall use the Internet to fulfill the

 

reporting requirements of this bill. This requirement may include

 

transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients

 

identified for each reporting requirement or it may include

 

placement of reports on an Internet or Intranet site.

 

     Sec. 209. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for

 


the purchase of foreign goods or services, or both, if

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality American goods or

 

services, or both, are available. Preference should be given to

 

goods or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses, if they are competitively priced and of comparable

 

quality. In addition, preference should be given to goods or

 

services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality.

 

     Sec. 210. The principal executive officer of each community

 

college receiving appropriations in part 1 shall take all

 

reasonable steps to ensure businesses in deprived and depressed

 

communities compete for and perform contracts to provide services

 

or supplies, or both. Each principal executive officer shall

 

strongly encourage firms with which the community college contracts

 

to subcontract with certified businesses in depressed and deprived

 

communities for services or supplies, or both.

 

     Sec. 211. (1) The money appropriated in this bill is

 

appropriated for community colleges with fiscal years ending June

 

30, 2010, and shall be paid out of the state treasury and

 

distributed by the state treasurer to the respective community

 

colleges in 11 monthly installments on the sixteenth of each month,

 

or the next succeeding business day, beginning with October 16,

 

2009. Each community college shall accrue its July and August 2010

 

payments to its institutional fiscal year ending June 30, 2010.

 

However, if a community college fails to submit all verified

 

Michigan community colleges activities classification structure

 


data for school year 2008-2009 to the department of energy, labor

 

and economic growth by November 1, 2009, the monthly installments

 

shall be withheld from that community college until those data are

 

submitted. The amount distributed to a community college or

 

department shall not exceed the net state allocation authorized by

 

this bill.

 

     (2) Except as otherwise provided by law, each of the amounts

 

appropriated shall be used solely for the respective purposes

 

stated in this bill. The money appropriated in this bill may be

 

used to match the cost of any available programs under the Carl D.

 

Perkins vocational and applied technology education act of 1998, 20

 

USC 2301 to 2415, including local administration.

 

     Sec. 216. (1) A community college shall pay the employer's

 

contributions to the Michigan public school employees' retirement

 

system created by the public school employees retirement act of

 

1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1408, as a condition of

 

receiving money appropriated under this bill.

 

     (2) A community college shall not pay an employer's

 

contribution to more than 1 retirement fund providing benefits for

 

an employee.

 

     Sec. 217. Money appropriated in part 1 shall not be used to

 

pay for the construction or maintenance of a self-liquidating

 

project.

 

     Sec. 224. (1) Recognizing the critical importance of education

 

in strengthening Michigan's workforce, the state's public community

 

colleges are encouraged to explore ways of increasing collaboration

 

and cooperation with 4-year universities, particularly in the areas

 


related to training, instruction, and program articulation.

 

     (2) Recognizing the central role of community colleges in

 

responding to local employment needs and challenges, community

 

colleges shall develop and continue efforts to collaborate with

 

local employers and students to identify local employment needs and

 

strategies to meet them.

 

     (3) Community colleges are encouraged to collaborate with each

 

other on innovations to identify and meet local employment needs.

 

     Sec. 234. Community colleges shall do the following:

 

     (a) Undertake active measures to promote equal opportunities,

 

eliminate discrimination, and foster a diverse student body and

 

administration among all people including, but not limited to,

 

women, minorities, seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities.

 

     (b) Review, analyze, and eradicate activities that may tend to

 

discriminate.

 

     Sec. 241. (1) Community colleges are encouraged to expand

 

their current nursing education programs and increase nursing

 

education program enrollments. This expansion may include, but is

 

not limited to, creating partnerships with hospitals and other

 

health care providers and redirecting existing institutional

 

resources toward nursing education programs.

 

     (2) Community college nursing programs are part of a

 

comprehensive solution to Michigan's nursing shortage. Community

 

college students can receive Michigan promise grants under 2006 PA

 

479, MCL 390.1621 to 390.1628 and are eligible to apply for

 

financial assistance through the Michigan college access grants.

 

The Michigan nursing corps grants described in section 431 of 2008

 


PA 251 and administered by the department of energy, labor and

 

economic growth provide funding to address the shortage of

 

qualified nursing faculty. Community colleges are encouraged to

 

coordinate with the chief nurse executive in the department of

 

community health and with 4-year universities to improve access to

 

nursing programs and to assist students to successfully enter the

 

nursing workforce.

 

     Sec. 247. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used to

 

enter into a lease for, or to purchase, a vehicle assembled or

 

manufactured outside of the United States if competitively priced

 

and comparable quality vehicles made in the state of Michigan or

 

elsewhere in the United States of America are available.

 

      Sec. 248. It is expected that a public university or

 

community college receiving federal stimulus funds will not raise

 

tuition and fees charged to Michigan residents for the remainder of

 

2008-2009 and for 2009-2010.

 

 

 

STATE AID - OPERATIONS

 

     Sec. 301. Unless otherwise stated, all data items used in

 

determining state aid in this bill are as defined in the 2001

 

Manual for Uniform Financial Reporting, Michigan Public Community

 

Colleges, which shall be the basis for reporting data, and the

 

Activities Classification Structure Manual for Michigan Community

 

Colleges, as amended, which shall be used to document financial

 

needs of the community colleges.

 

     Sec. 302. A community college shall not include in the

 

enrollment data reported for determining state aid under this bill

 


any student credit hours or student contact hours for a student

 

incarcerated in a Michigan penal institution. Exclusion of these

 

students is intended to avoid the payment of state aid under this

 

bill for the same individuals for whom reimbursement is provided by

 

the state correctional system.

 

 

 

GRANTS

 

     Sec. 401. (1) The community college at-risk student success

 

program is continued. The funding shall be prorated among community

 

colleges based on the number of student contact hours for

 

developmental and preparatory instruction reported by each

 

community college to the department of energy, labor and economic

 

growth pursuant to the Activities Classification Structure Manual

 

for Michigan Community Colleges, as amended. Of the amount

 

appropriated in part 1 for the at-risk student success program,

 

$1,120,000.00 is allocated for base grants of $40,000.00 each, to

 

address the special needs of at-risk students at community

 

colleges.

 

     (2) Of the amount appropriated in part 1 for the at-risk

 

student success program, the balance of the appropriated money

 

shall be distributed on a proration utilizing the sum of the most

 

recent 3 years developmental/preparatory contact hours divided by

 

the sum of the 3-year total contact hours at each college. Each

 

community college's percentage shall be divided by the sum of all

 

the percentages systemwide to obtain each community college's

 

prorated grant amount.

 

     (3) For the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, the at-risk

 


student success program money is allocated as follows:

 

Alpena Community College............................... $         83,000

 

Bay de Noc Community College...........................            69,100

 

Delta College..........................................           106,400

 

Glen Oaks Community College............................           111,300

 

Gogebic Community College..............................            56,300

 

Grand Rapids Community College.........................           133,300

 

Henry Ford Community College...........................           163,300

 

Jackson Community College..............................           132,800

 

Kalamazoo Valley Community College.....................            92,000

 

Kellogg Community College..............................           152,600

 

Kirtland Community College.............................           128,400

 

Lake Michigan College..................................           147,000

 

Lansing Community College..............................           157,000

 

Macomb Community College...............................            84,200

 

Mid Michigan Community College.........................           133,600

 

Monroe County Community College........................           104,100

 

Montcalm Community College.............................            75,600

 

C.S. Mott Community College............................           113,300

 

Muskegon Community College.............................            81,100

 

North Central Michigan College.........................           109,800

 

Northwestern Michigan College..........................           122,500

 

Oakland Community College..............................           146,900

 

St. Clair Community College............................           123,100

 

Schoolcraft College....................................           123,500

 

Southwestern Michigan College..........................           152,300

 

Washtenaw Community College............................           127,300

 


Wayne County Community College.........................           146,200

 

West Shore Community College...........................           146,700

 

     (4) As used in this bill, "at-risk students" means students

 

who meet 1 or more of the following criteria:

 

     (a) Are initially placed in 1 or more developmental courses as

 

a result of standardized testing or as a result of failure to make

 

satisfactory academic progress.

 

     (b) Are diagnosed as learning disabled.

 

     (c) Require English as a second language (ESL) assistance.

 

     (5) Grant funding under this section shall be utilized to

 

address the special needs of at-risk students. Activities related

 

to services provided to at-risk students include, but are not

 

limited to, pretesting for academic ability, counseling contacts,

 

and special programs. Equipment or information technology hardware

 

or software purchased under this section must be associated with

 

the operation of a program designed to address the needs of at-risk

 

students.

 

     (6) Grant funding under this section shall not be used for

 

indirect costs including, but not limited to, rent, utilities, or,

 

except as provided in this section, college administration.

 

     (7) Each community college shall report to the department of

 

energy, labor and economic growth a summary of all accomplishments

 

under, expenditures for, and compliance with the intent of this

 

program, including the number of at-risk students served. The

 

report is subject to audit as provided for in section 502(1). The

 

report shall be submitted not later than 90 days after the end of

 

the state's fiscal year.

 


     Sec. 404. The appropriation in part 1 for renaissance zone

 

reimbursements shall be made to each eligible recipient no later

 

than 60 days after the department of treasury certifies to the

 

state budget director that it has received all necessary

 

information to properly determine the amounts due each eligible

 

recipient under section 12 of the Michigan renaissance zone act,

 

1996 PA 376, MCL 125.2692.

 

 

 

REPORTS AND AUDITS

 

     Sec. 501. The department of energy, labor and economic growth

 

shall publish the activities classification structure data book for

 

Michigan community colleges on or before March 1, 2010.

 

     Sec. 502. (1) The auditor general or a certified public

 

accountant appointed by the auditor general may conduct performance

 

audits of community colleges as the auditor general considers

 

necessary.

 

     (2) Not more than 60 days after an audit report is released by

 

the office of the auditor general, the principal executive officer

 

of the community college that was audited shall submit to the house

 

and senate appropriations committees, the house and senate fiscal

 

agencies, the department of energy, labor and economic growth, the

 

auditor general, and the state budget director a plan to comply

 

with audit recommendations. The plan shall contain projected dates

 

and resources required, if any, to achieve compliance with the

 

audit recommendations, or a documented explanation of the college's

 

noncompliance with the audit recommendations concerning the matters

 

on which the audited community college and office of the auditor

 


general disagree.

 

     Sec. 504. (1) A community college shall retain certified class

 

summaries, class lists, registration documents, and student

 

transcripts that are consistent with the taxonomy of courses. For

 

each enrollment period during the fiscal year, these certified

 

documents shall identify clearly by course the number of in-

 

district and out-of-district student credit and contact hours. The

 

class summaries and class lists shall be consistent with each other

 

and shall include the course prefix and numbers, course title,

 

course credit and contact hours, credit and contact hours generated

 

by each student, and activity classifications consistent with the

 

taxonomy. An auditable process shall be used by the community

 

college to determine the unduplicated head count for in-district

 

students, out-of-district students, and prisoners for each

 

enrollment period during the fiscal year.

 

     (2) Contracts between the community college and agencies that

 

reimburse the community college for the costs of instruction shall

 

be retained for audit purposes.

 

     Sec. 505. Each community college shall have an annual audit of

 

all income and expenditures performed by an independent auditor and

 

shall furnish the independent auditor's management letter and an

 

annual audited accounting of all general and current funds income

 

and expenditures including audits of college foundations to the

 

members of the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on

 

community colleges, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the

 

auditor general, the department of energy, labor and economic

 

growth, and the state budget director before November 15, 2009. If

 


a community college fails to furnish the audit materials, the

 

monthly state aid installments shall be withheld from that college

 

until the information is submitted. All reporting shall conform to

 

the requirements set forth in the 2001 Manual for Uniform Financial

 

Reporting, Michigan Public Community Colleges.

 

     Sec. 506. (1) Each community college shall report the

 

following to the department of energy, labor and economic growth no

 

later than November 1, 2009:

 

     (a) The number of North American Indian students enrolled each

 

term for the previous fiscal year, using guidelines and procedures

 

developed by the department of energy, labor and economic growth

 

and the Michigan commission on Indian affairs.

 

     (b) The number of North American Indian tuition waivers

 

granted each term, and the monetary value of the waivers for the

 

previous fiscal year.

 

     (2) Colleges shall use the criteria cited in 1976 PA 174, MCL

 

390.1251 to 390.1253, to determine eligibility for tuition waivers,

 

and shall grant those waivers to individuals who meet the criteria

 

and request tuition waivers.

 

     (3) The department of energy, labor and economic growth shall

 

compile the information received under subsection (1) and shall

 

submit this compilation to the house and senate appropriations

 

subcommittees on community colleges, the senate and house fiscal

 

agencies, and the state budget director by January 7, 2010.

 

     Sec. 507. Upon request, a community college shall inform

 

interested Michigan high schools of the aggregate academic status

 

of its students for the prior academic year, in a manner prescribed

 


by the Michigan community college association and in cooperation

 

with the Michigan association of secondary school principals.

 

     Sec. 508. (1) Each community college shall report to the house

 

and senate fiscal agencies, the state budget director, and the

 

department of energy, labor and economic growth by August 31, 2009,

 

the tuition and mandatory fees paid by a full-time in-district

 

student and a full-time out-of-district student as established by

 

the college governing board for the 2009-2010 academic year. This

 

report should also include the annual cost of attendance based on a

 

full-time course load of 30 credits. Each community college shall

 

also report any revisions to the reported 2009-2010 academic year

 

tuition and mandatory fees adopted by the college governing board

 

to the house and senate fiscal agencies, the state budget director,

 

and the department of energy, labor and economic growth within 15

 

days of being adopted.

 

     (2) The department of energy, labor and economic growth shall

 

prepare and provide to community colleges a standard format for

 

reporting tuition and fees pursuant to subsection (1).

 

     Sec. 509. (1) Each community college shall report to the

 

department of energy, labor and economic growth the numbers and

 

type of associate degrees and other certificates awarded during the

 

previous fiscal year. The report shall be made not later than

 

November 15, 2009.

 

     (2) The department of energy, labor and economic growth shall

 

compile the information received under subsection (1) and shall

 

submit this compilation to the house and senate appropriations

 

subcommittees on community colleges, the senate and house fiscal

 


agencies, and the state budget director by January 7, 2010.

 

     Sec. 510. A community college receiving funding under this

 

bill and also subject to the student right-to-know and campus

 

security act, Public Law 101-542, 104 Stat. 2381, shall make a copy

 

of all material prepared in accordance with the public information

 

reporting requirements under the crime awareness and campus

 

security act of 1990, title II of the student right-to-know and

 

campus security act, Public Law 101-542, 104 Stat. 2384, available

 

in hard copy and electronic format accessible through the Internet

 

for school districts, parents, and students.

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