Bill Text: MI HB5628 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Education; reports; reporting procedure for great start collaborative grants; modify. Amends sec. 32b of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1632b).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-12 - Re-referred To Committee On Education [HB5628 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HB5628-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5628

 

May 15, 2012, Introduced by Rep. 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 32b (MCL 388.1632b), as amended by 2011 PA 62.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 32b. (1) From the funds appropriated under section 11,

 

there is allocated an amount not to exceed $5,900,000.00 for 2011-

 

2012 for competitive grants to intermediate districts for the

 

creation and continuance of great start communities or other

 

community purposes as identified by the early childhood investment

 

corporation. These dollars may not be expended until both of the

 

following conditions have been met:

 

     (a) The early childhood investment corporation has identified

 

matching dollars of at least an amount equal to the amount of the

 

matching dollars for 2006-2007.

 

     (b) The executive committee of the corporation includes, in

 

addition to the members of the executive committee provided for by

 

the interlocal agreement creating the corporation under the urban

 

cooperation act of 1967, 1967 (Ex Sess) PA 7, MCL 124.510 124.501

 

to 124.512, 4 members appointed by the governor as provided in this

 

subdivision. Not later than 30 days after the convening of a

 

regular legislative session in an odd-numbered year, the speaker of

 

the house of representatives, the house minority leader, the senate

 

majority leader, and the senate minority leader shall each submit

 

to the governor a list of 3 or more individuals as nominees for

 

appointment as members of the executive committee of the

 

corporation. The corporation shall notify each of the legislative

 

leaders of this requirement to submit a list of nominees not later

 

than 30 days before the date that the list is due. Within 60 days

 

of the submission to the governor of nominees by each of the 4

 

legislative leaders, the governor shall appoint 1 member of the

 

executive committee from each list of nominees submitted by each of

 

the 4 legislative leaders. A member appointed under this

 

subdivision shall serve a term as a member of the executive

 

committee through the next regular legislative session unless he or

 

she resigns or is otherwise unable to serve. When a vacancy occurs

 

other than by expiration of a term, the corporation shall notify

 

the legislative leader who originally nominated the member of the

 

vacancy and that legislative leader shall submit to the governor a

 

list of 3 or more individuals as nominees for appointment to fill

 

the vacancy within 30 days after being notified by the corporation

 

of the vacancy. The governor shall make an appointment to fill that

 

vacancy in the same manner as the original appointment not later

 

than 60 days after the date the vacancy occurs.

 

     (2) The early childhood investment corporation shall award

 

grants to eligible intermediate districts in an amount to be

 

determined by the corporation.

 

     (3) In order to receive funding, each intermediate district

 

applicant shall agree to convene a local great start collaborative

 

to address the availability of the 6 components of a great start

 

system in its communities: physical health, social-emotional

 

health, family supports, basic needs, economic stability and

 

safety, and parenting education and early education and care, to

 

ensure that every child in the community is ready for kindergarten.

 

Specifically, each grant will fund the following:

 

     (a) The completion of a community needs assessment and

 

strategic plan for the creation of a comprehensive system of early

 

childhood services and supports, accessible to all children from

 

birth to kindergarten and their families.

 

     (b) Identification of local resources and services for

 

children with disabilities, developmental delays, or special needs

 

and their families.

 

     (c) Coordination and expansion of infrastructure to support

 

high-quality early childhood and childcare programs.

 

     (d) Evaluation of local programs.

 

     (4) Not later than December 1 of each fiscal year, for the

 

grants awarded under this section for the immediately preceding

 

fiscal year, the department early childhood investment corporation

 

shall provide to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees

 

on state school aid, the state budget director, and the house and

 

senate fiscal agencies a report detailing the amount of each grant

 

awarded under this section, the grant recipients, the activities

 

funded by each grant under this section, and an analysis of each

 

grant recipient's success in addressing the development of a

 

comprehensive system of early childhood services and supports.

 

     (5) An intermediate district receiving funds under this

 

section may carry over any unexpended funds received under this

 

section into the next fiscal year and may expend those unused funds

 

in the next fiscal year. A recipient of a grant shall return any

 

unexpended grant funds to the department in the manner prescribed

 

by the department not later than September 30 of the next fiscal

 

year after the fiscal year in which the funds are received.

 

     (6) Beginning with 2012-2013, it is the intent of the

 

legislature to transfer funding for great start collaboratives

 

under this section into an early childhood block grant program,

 

along with funding for great start readiness programs under section

 

32d and funding for great parents, great start programs under

 

section 32j. The early childhood block grant program will allocate

 

funds to intermediate districts and consortia of intermediate

 

districts to act as fiduciaries and provide administration of

 

regional early childhood programs in conjunction with their

 

regional great start collaborative to improve program quality,

 

evaluation, and efficiency for early childhood programs. The

 

department shall work with intermediate districts, districts, great

 

start collaboratives, and the early childhood investment

 

corporation to establish a revised funding formula, application

 

process, program criteria, and data reporting requirements for

 

2012-2013. Not later than January 1, 2012, the department shall

 

report to the legislature its recommendations for the revisions

 

required under this subsection.

 

     (7) Notwithstanding section 17b, payments under this section

 

may be made pursuant to an agreement with the department.