HOUSE BILL NO. 5270

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 2021 PA 48, and by adding section 29b.

the people of the state of michigan enact:

Sec. 11. (1) For the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, there is appropriated for the public schools of this state and certain other state purposes relating to education the sum of $13,715,807,900.00 from the state school aid fund, the sum of $54,464,600.00 from the general fund, an amount not to exceed $79,800,000.00 from the community district education trust fund created under section 12 of the Michigan trust fund act, 2000 PA 489, MCL 12.262, and an amount not to exceed $100.00 from the water emergency reserve fund. For the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022, there is appropriated for the public schools of this state and certain other state purposes relating to education the sum of $14,797,232,100.00 $14,990,262,700.00 from the state school aid fund, the sum of $85,400,000.00 $91,369,400.00 from the general fund, an amount not to exceed $72,000,000.00 from the community district education trust fund created under section 12 of the Michigan trust fund act, 2000 PA 489, MCL 12.262, and an amount not to exceed $100.00 from the water emergency reserve fund. In addition, all available federal funds are only appropriated as allocated in this article for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2021 and September 30, 2022.

(2) The appropriations under this section are allocated as provided in this article. Money appropriated under this section from the general fund must 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 fiscal year are transferred to the school aid stabilization fund created under section 11a.

Sec. 29b. (1) From the state school aid fund money appropriated under section 11, there is allocated for 2021-2022 an amount not to exceed $200,000,000.00 for payments as provided under this section to eligible districts described in subsection (2).

(2) A district for which its 2020-2021 pupils in membership exceeds the calculation of membership for that district under section 6(4) for 2021-2022 is an eligible district under this section.

(3) The payment to each eligible district under this section must be equal to [the difference between the district's total 2020-2021 pupils in membership and the district's total 2021-2022 pupils in membership as calculated under section 6(4) for 2021-2022] multiplied by 0.70 multiplied by the district's foundation allowance calculated under section 20, not to exceed the target foundation allowance described in section 20.

(4) If funds allocated under this section are insufficient to fully fund the calculations under this section, the department shall apply proration on an equal percentage per district.

(5) As used in this section, "2020-2021 pupils in membership" means the sum of the product of 0.75 times the district's 2019-2020 membership as calculated under section 6 in 2019-2020 and the product of 0.25 times [the sum of (the product of 0.90 times the number of full-time equated pupils engaged in pandemic learning for fall 2020 in 2020-2021 or, for a district that operates as a cyber school, as that term is defined in section 551 of the revised school code, MCL 380.551, the number of full-time equated pupils in grades K to 12 actually enrolled and in regular daily attendance in the district on pupil membership count day for 2020-2021) and (the product of 0.10 times the final audited count from the supplemental count day of full-time equated pupils in grades K to 12 actually enrolled and in regular daily attendance in the district, public school academy, or intermediate district for the 2019-2020 school year)].