Bill Text: MI SB0061 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Education; intermediate school districts; disorganization process for intermediate school districts; modify. Amends sec. 703 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.703).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-24 - Referred To Committee On Education [SB0061 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-SB0061-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 61
January 24, 2017, Introduced by Senator BOOHER and referred to the Committee on Education.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled
"The revised school code,"
by amending section 703 (MCL 380.703), as amended by 2003 PA 299.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
703. (1) An intermediate school district comprised of
less
than 5 constituent districts and having
no bonded indebtedness
may be disorganized and its constituent districts attached to 1 or
more contiguous intermediate school districts as provided under
this section.
(2) The board of each constituent district may request the
intermediate school board to prescribe a plan for disorganization
of the intermediate school district. Each request shall designate
another intermediate school district to which the constituent
district
desires to be attached. The If
the intermediate school
board receives requests from at least 50% of the constituent
districts and those constituent districts make up at least 50% of
the combined total membership of all the constituent districts in
the intermediate school district, the intermediate school board
shall
prescribe, by resolution, a plan under which each of the its
constituent districts will be attached in whole to contiguous
intermediate school districts. If a constituent district has
submitted a request designating a contiguous intermediate school
district for the attachment, the plan shall provide for attachment
to
the intermediate school district
designated in the requests.
request. If the designated intermediate school district is not
contiguous, the intermediate school board's plan may prescribe
attachment to a contiguous intermediate school district.
(3) The intermediate superintendent of the intermediate school
district that is to be disorganized shall give 30 days' notice of
the time and place of the meeting of the intermediate school board
and of the proposed plan for disorganization by publication of the
notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the intermediate
school district. The intermediate school board shall present the
adopted
plan for dissolution disorganization
to the board of each
of its constituent districts and to the intermediate school board
of each intermediate school district whose boundaries would be
enlarged by the proposal.
(4) The intermediate superintendent of each intermediate
school district whose boundaries would be enlarged by the
dissolution
disorganization shall give 30 days' notice of the time
and place of the meeting of the intermediate school board and of
the recommended plan for enlargement of the intermediate school
district by publication of the notice in a newspaper of general
circulation in the intermediate school district.
(5) If the intermediate school board of each affected
intermediate school district approves the plan for disorganization,
the intermediate school board of the intermediate school district
to
be dissolved disorganized shall refer the matter to the
superintendent of public instruction for approval. The action of
the superintendent of public instruction declaring the intermediate
school
district dissolved disorganized
is final. Disorganization of
the intermediate school district and attachment of its constituent
districts to contiguous intermediate school districts takes effect
on July 1 after the date of the approval of the superintendent of
public instruction.
(6) The intermediate school boards of the intermediate school
districts
to which territory is attached by dissolution
disorganization shall meet jointly, sitting as a single board, and
make an equitable distribution of the money, property, and other
assets belonging to the disorganized intermediate school district
among the intermediate school districts affected. The territory of
constituent districts transferred to other intermediate school
districts
by dissolution disorganization
shall be subject to all
taxes levied for purposes of the intermediate school district to
which transferred, including taxes for the retirement of bonded
indebtedness, special education programs, and area vocational-
technical education programs.
(7) Within 30 days after a district attaches to a contiguous
intermediate school district under this section, the board of the
intermediate school district whose boundaries have been enlarged by
the
dissolution disorganization
may appoint 2 school electors of
constituent districts, 1 of whom shall be an elector of the
attached district, to membership on the intermediate school board.
Intermediate school board members appointed under this subsection
serve until January 1 or, if the intermediate school district's
regular school election is held in May, until July 1 after the next
intermediate school district election. The intermediate school
board may determine 1 initial term of less than 6 years for 1 of
the additional members to be elected at the intermediate school
district election. Notification of an appointment shall be filed
with the superintendent of public instruction.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
