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


Bill Title: Constitutional amendments; state; equal amount of per pupil funding for all local school districts; ensure by certain date. Amends sec. 11, art. IX of the state constitution.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-01-21 - Referred To Committee On Appropriations [SJRD Detail]

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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION D

 

 

January 21, 2015, Introduced by Senators JONES, HORN and BOOHER and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

 

 

 

     A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state

 

constitution of 1963, by amending section 11 of article IX, to

 

require that all local school districts receive the same amount of

 

total state and local per pupil revenue for school operating

 

purposes.

 

     Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

 

state of Michigan, That the following amendment to the state

 

constitution of 1963, to require that all local school districts

 

receive the same amount of total state and local per pupil revenue

 

for school operating purposes, is proposed, agreed to, and

 

submitted to the people of the state:

 

ARTICLE IX

 

     Sec. 11. There shall be established a state school aid fund


 

which shall be used exclusively for aid to school districts, higher

 

education, and school employees' retirement systems, as provided by

 

law. Sixty percent of all taxes imposed at a rate of 4% on

 

retailers on taxable sales at retail of tangible personal property,

 

100% of the proceeds of the sales and use taxes imposed at the

 

additional rate of 2% provided for in section 8 of this article,

 

and other tax revenues provided by law, shall be dedicated to this

 

fund. Payments from this fund shall be made in full on a scheduled

 

basis, as provided by law.

 

     Beginning Subject to the next paragraph of this section,

 

beginning in the 1995-96 state fiscal year and each state fiscal

 

year after 1995-96, the state shall guarantee that the total state

 

and local per pupil revenue for school operating purposes for each

 

local school district shall not be less than the 1994-95 total

 

state and local per pupil revenue for school operating purposes for

 

that local school district, as adjusted for consolidations,

 

annexations, or other boundary changes. However, this guarantee

 

does not apply in a year in which the local school district levies

 

a millage rate for school district operating purposes less than it

 

levied in 1994.

 

     Not later than the 2020-2021 state fiscal year that begins

 

October 1, 2020, the state shall provide a system of state funding

 

for local school districts that ensures that all local school

 

districts receive the same amount of total state and local per

 

pupil revenue for school operating purposes.

 

     Resolved further, That the foregoing amendment shall be

 

submitted to the people of the state at the next general election


 

in the manner provided by law.

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