HOUSE BILL No. 4980

 

June 27, 2007, Introduced by Rep. Amos and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

     A bill to amend 1979 PA 94, entitled

 

"The state school aid act of 1979,"

 

(MCL 388.1601 to 388.1772) by adding section 164f.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 164f. (1) A district or intermediate district shall not

 

use public funds to employ a person to engage in lobbying, to

 

contract with a person to engage in lobbying, or to pay in any

 

other way for activity that constitutes lobbying.

 

     (2) If a district or intermediate district violates subsection

 

(1), the district or intermediate district forfeits from its total

 

state school aid an amount equal to 5% of its total state school

 


aid for the fiscal year in which the violation occurs.

 

     (3) As used in this section, "lobbying" means that term as

 

defined in section 5 of 1978 PA 472, MCL 4.415.