Bill Text: MI HJRY | 2025-2026 | 103rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Legislature: other; certain transparency requirements and penalties for failure to present school aid appropriation bills by July 1; provide for. Amends secs. 12, 26 & 31, art. IV & sec. 11, art. IX & adds sec. 55 to art. IV of the state constitution.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13)
Status: (Introduced) 2026-07-01 - Joint Resolution Electronically Reproduced 06/30/2026 [HJRY Detail]
Download: Michigan-2025-HJRY-Introduced.html
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION Y
A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state constitution of 1963, by amending sections 12, 26, and 31 of article IV and section 11 of article IX and by adding section 55 to article IV, to require certain state budget bills for school aid to be enacted into law on or before a certain date, to withhold the compensation of the senate majority leader, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the governor if those state budget bills are not enacted into law on or before that date, and to require those state budget bills to be made public for a certain period of time before passage.
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 certain state budget bills for school aid to be enacted into law on or before a certain date, to withhold the compensation of the senate majority leader, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the governor if those state budget bills are not enacted into law on or before that date, and to require those state budget bills to be made public for a certain period of time before passage is proposed, agreed to, and submitted to the people of the state:
ARTICLE IV
Sec. 12. The state officers compensation commission is created which subject to this section shall determine the salaries and expense allowances of the members of the legislature, the governor, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general, the secretary of state, and the justices of the supreme court. The commission shall consist of 7 members appointed by the governor whose qualifications may be determined by law. Subject to the legislature's ability to amend the commission's determinations as provided in this section and subject to section 55 of this article, the commission shall determine the salaries and expense allowances of the members of the legislature, the governor, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general, the secretary of state, and the justices of the supreme court which determinations shall be the salaries and expense allowances only if the legislature by concurrent resolution adopted by a majority of the members elected to and serving in each house of the legislature approve them. The senate and house of representatives shall alternate on which house of the legislature shall originate the concurrent resolution, with the senate originating the first concurrent resolution.
The concurrent resolution may amend the salary and expense determinations of the state officers compensation commission to reduce the salary and expense determinations by the same proportion for members of the legislature, the governor, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general, the secretary of state, and the justices of the supreme court. The legislature shall not amend the salary and expense determinations to reduce them to below the salary and expense level that members of the legislature, the governor, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general, the secretary of state, and the justices of the supreme court receive on the date the salary and expense determinations are made. If the salary and expense determinations are approved or amended as provided in this section, the salary and expense determinations shall become effective for the legislative session immediately following the next general election. The commission shall meet each 2 years for no more than 15 session days. The legislature shall implement this section by law.
Sec. 26. (1) No bill shall be passed or become a law at any regular session of the legislature until it has been printed or reproduced and in the possession of each house for at least five days. Every bill shall be read three times in each house before the final passage thereof. No bill shall become a law without the concurrence of a majority of the members elected to and serving in each house. On the final passage of bills, the votes and names of the members voting thereon shall be entered in the journal.
(2) A house of the legislature or a committee of a house of the legislature shall not vote on a general appropriation bill for aid to school districts unless both of the following requirements are met:
(a) The bill has been publicly available on the legislature's website for at least seven days.
(b) Any adopted amendments to the bill have been publicly available on the legislature's website for not less 24 hours.
Sec. 31. The general appropriation bills for the succeeding fiscal period covering items set forth in the budget shall be passed or rejected in either house of the legislature before that house passes any appropriation bill for items not in the budget except bills supplementing appropriations for the current fiscal year's operation. Any bill requiring an appropriation to carry out its purpose shall be considered an appropriation bill. One of the general appropriation bills as passed by the legislature shall contain an itemized statement of estimated revenue by major source in each operating fund for the ensuing fiscal period, the total of which shall not be less than the total of all appropriations made from each fund in the general appropriation bills as passed. The general appropriation bill for aid to school districts for the succeeding fiscal period must be enacted into law on or before July 1 of each year.
Sec. 55. If the general appropriation bill for aid to school districts for the succeeding fiscal period is not enacted into law on or before the date set forth in section 31 of this article, the senate majority leader, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the governor shall not receive payments of that individual's salary until the general appropriation bill for aid to school districts is enacted into law.
Sec. 11. There shall be established a state school aid fund which shall be used exclusively for aid to school districts, higher education, and school employees' retirement systems, as provided by law. Sixty percent of all taxes imposed at a rate of 4% on retailers on taxable sales at retail of tangible personal property, 100% of the proceeds of the sales and use taxes imposed at the additional rate of 2% provided for in section 8 of this article, and other tax revenues provided by law, shall be dedicated to this fund. Payments from this fund shall be made in full on a scheduled basis, as provided by law. The state shall appropriate the money necessary to make payments to school districts from this fund for the succeeding fiscal period on or before the date set forth in section 31 of article IV. Beginning in the 1995-96 state fiscal year and each state fiscal year after 1995-96, the state shall guarantee that the total state and local per pupil revenue for school operating purposes for each local school district shall not be less than the 1994-95 total state and local per pupil revenue for school operating purposes for that local school district, as adjusted for consolidations, annexations, or other boundary changes. However, this guarantee does not apply in a year in which the local school district levies a millage rate for school district operating purposes less than it levied in 1994.
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.
