2016 Senate Bill 820 / Public Act 196

Overhaul Detroit school district debt and governance

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 24, 2016

Introduced by Sen. Goeff Hansen (R-34)

To permit the superintendent of the Detroit school district to also be the director of an administrative entity created to place a number of academically failed Detroit schools under a form of state receivership. The bill amends a law that defines “incompatible offices” that appointed or elected government officials are prohibited from serving in simultaneously.

Referred to the Committee on Government Operations

March 22, 2016

Passed in the Senate 21 to 16 (details)

Received in the House

March 23, 2016

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 3, 2016

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

May 5, 2016

Passed in the House 59 to 49 (details)

To permit the superintendent of the Detroit school district to also be the director of an administrative entity created to place a number of academically failed Detroit schools under a form of state receivership. The bill amends a law that defines “incompatible offices” that appointed or elected government officials are prohibited from serving in simultaneously.

June 2, 2016

Received

Amendment offered by Rep. Aric Nesbitt (R-66)

To reconsider the vote by which the House passed the bill.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Substitute offered

To adopt a version that reflects the addition of a Detroit school "transition manager".

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 59 to 49 (details)

To permit the superintendent of the Detroit school district to also be the on the board of a state financial oversight commission tasked with overseeing the insolvent district's finances after a state bailout. Also, to let the state-appointed emergency manager for the district to also be appointed as the district's "transition manager" pending election of new school board. The bill amends a law that defines “incompatible offices” that appointed or elected government officials are prohibited from serving in simultaneously.

Received in the Senate

June 8, 2016

Passed in the Senate 22 to 15 (details)

To concur with the House-passed version of the bill.

Signed by Gov. Rick Snyder

June 21, 2016