Bill Text: MI HJRM | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Higher education; community colleges; in-district tuition rates for active service and reserve members and honorably discharged veterans; provide for. Amends sec. 7, art. VIII of the state constitution.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2014-05-15 - Referred To Committee On Appropriations [HJRM Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-HJRM-Engrossed.html
HJR-M, As Passed House, May 14, 2014
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION M
February 28, 2013, Introduced by Reps. Knezek, Santana, Kosowski, Yanez, Dianda, Stallworth, Ananich, Darany, Segal, Brinks, Crawford, Hooker, Barnett, Slavens, Singh, Lane, Banks, Zemke, Cavanagh, Kelly, Haines, Driskell, Zorn, Haugh, LaVoy, Cochran, Dillon, Rutledge, Hobbs, Townsend, Robinson, Smiley, Brown, Stanley, Brunner, Geiss, Lipton, Outman, Kesto, Muxlow, Tlaib, Roberts, MacGregor and Oakes and referred to the Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs.
A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state
constitution of 1963, by amending section 7 of article VIII, to
require each public community and junior college to consider active
duty members and honorably discharged veterans of the armed forces
as residents of that college's district for determining their
tuition rates.
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 each public community and junior
college to consider active duty members and honorably discharged
veterans of the armed forces as residents of that college's
district for determining their tuition rates, is proposed, agreed
to, and submitted to the people of the state:
ARTICLE VIII
Sec. 7. (1) The legislature shall provide by law for the
establishment and financial support of public community and junior
colleges which shall be supervised and controlled by locally
elected boards.
(2) The legislature shall provide by law for a state board for
public community and junior colleges which shall advise the state
board of education concerning general supervision and planning for
such
public community and junior colleges and requests for annual
appropriations for their support. The board shall consist of eight
members who shall hold office for terms of eight years, not more
than two of which shall expire in the same year, and who shall be
appointed by the state board of education. Vacancies shall be
filled in like manner. The superintendent of public instruction
shall
be ex-officio ex officio a member of this board without the
right to vote.
(3) The board of a community or junior college described in
subsection (1) shall consider a student enrolled in that college a
resident of that college's district for determining his or her
tuition rates if the student is an active duty member, reserve
member, or honorably discharged veteran of the armed forces of the
United States.
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.
