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

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Bill Title: Higher education; tuition; in-district tuition rates for active service members and veterans; provide for. Amends sec. 7, art. VIII of the state constitution.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 48-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-31 - Printed Joint Resolution Filed 01/27/2012 [HJRMM Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HJRMM-Introduced.html

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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION MM

 

January 26, 2012, Introduced by Reps. Hughes, Bumstead, Yonker, Kurtz, Jenkins, Price, Damrow, Forlini, Lyons, Gilbert, Shaughnessy, Horn, Franz, Agema, Pettalia, Poleski, Moss, LaFontaine, Olson, Callton, Outman, Muxlow, Somerville, Jacobsen, Cotter, MacMaster, Tyler, Huuki, Knollenberg, Haines, Crawford, Glardon, Genetski, Lori, Hobbs, Opsommer, Zorn, Rendon, Hooker, Potvin, Heise, Foster, Goike, Denby, Kowall, Lund, MacGregor, O'Brien, Rutledge and Daley and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

     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

 

institution a resident of that college's district for determining

 

his or her tuition rates if the student is an active duty member or

 

an 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.