SENATE BILL No. 885

 

 

January 11, 2012, Introduced by Senator KAHN 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 2011 PA 62.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 11. (1) Subject to subsection (3), for the fiscal year

 

ending September 30, 2011, there is appropriated for the public

 

schools of this state and certain other state purposes relating to

 

education the sum of $10,757,260,500.00 from the state school aid

 

fund and the sum of $18,642,400.00 from the general fund. For the

 

fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, there is also appropriated

 

the remaining balance of the federal funding awarded to this state

 

under title XIV of the American recovery and reinvestment act of

 

2009, Public Law 111-5, estimated at $184,256,600.00, to be used


 

solely for the purpose of funding the primary funding formula

 

calculated under section 20, in accordance with federal law.

 

Subject to subsection (3), for the fiscal year ending September 30,

 

2012, there is appropriated for the public schools of this state

 

and certain other state purposes relating to education the sum of

 

$10,887,098,700.00 $_________________ from the state school aid

 

fund and the sum of $118,642,400.00 $______________ from the

 

general fund. In addition, all other available federal funds,

 

except those otherwise appropriated under section 11p, are

 

appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011 and for

 

the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012.

 

     (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.