Bill Text: MI HB4798 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: School aid; other; pupils residing in district that is not financially able to provide education; consider to be residents of educating district for school aid purposes. Amends sec. 3 of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1603).
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-06-04 - Printed Bill Filed 05/30/2013 [HB4798 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-HB4798-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4798
May 30, 2013, Introduced by Reps. Rogers and Rutledge and referred to the Committee on Education.
A bill to amend 1979 PA 94, entitled
"The state school aid act of 1979,"
by amending section 3 (MCL 388.1603), as amended by 2012 PA 201.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 3. (1) "Achievement authority" means the education
achievement authority, the public body corporate and special
authority initially created under section 5 of article III and
section 28 of article VII of the state constitution of 1963 and the
urban cooperation act of 1967, 1967 (Ex Sess) PA 7, MCL 124.501 to
124.512, by an interlocal agreement effective August 11, 2011,
between the school district of the city of Detroit and the board of
regents of eastern Michigan university, a state public university.
(2) "Achievement school" means a public school within the
education achievement system operated, managed, authorized,
established, or overseen by the achievement authority.
(3) "Average daily attendance", for the purposes of complying
with federal law, means 92% of the pupils counted in membership on
the pupil membership count day, as defined in section 6(7).
(4) "Board" means the governing body of a district or public
school academy.
(5) "Center" means the center for educational performance and
information created in section 94a.
(6) "Cooperative education program" means a written voluntary
agreement between and among districts to provide certain
educational programs for pupils in certain groups of districts. The
written agreement shall be approved by all affected districts at
least annually and shall specify the educational programs to be
provided and the estimated number of pupils from each district who
will participate in the educational programs.
(7) "Delinquent plan district" means a district that meets
both of the following:
(a) The district either has failed to submit a deficit
elimination plan required under section 102 or has submitted a
deficit elimination plan under section 102 but that plan has not
been approved by the department within 90 days after it was
submitted.
(b) The superintendent and the state treasurer have both
determined that the district is not financially viable and is
unable to educate district residents for a school year, and have
provided the district with written notice of this determination.
(8) (7)
"Department", except in
section 107, means the
department of education.
(9) (8)
"District" means a local
school district established
under the revised school code or, except in sections 6(4), 6(6),
13, 20, 22a, 31a, 51a(14), 105, 105c, and 166b, a public school
academy. Except in sections 6(4), 6(6), 6(8), 13, 20, 22a, 31a,
105, 105c, and 166b, district also includes the education
achievement system.
(10) (9)
"District of residence",
except as otherwise provided
in this subsection, means the district in which a pupil's custodial
parent or parents or legal guardian resides. For a pupil described
in section 24b, the pupil's district of residence is the district
in which the pupil enrolls under that section. For a pupil
described in section 6(4)(d), the pupil's district of residence
shall be considered to be the district or intermediate district in
which the pupil is counted in membership under that section. For a
pupil under court jurisdiction who is placed outside the district
in which the pupil's custodial parent or parents or legal guardian
resides, the pupil's district of residence shall be considered to
be the educating district or educating intermediate district. For a
pupil with a parent or legal guardian who resides in a delinquent
plan district, the pupil's district of residence is considered to
be the pupil's educating district or educating intermediate
district.
(11) (10)
"District superintendent"
means the superintendent
of a district, the chief administrator of a public school academy,
or the chancellor of the achievement authority.