2019 Senate Bill 154 / Public Act 162

Appropriations: Supplemental budget

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 28, 2019

Introduced by Sen. Jim Stamas (R-36)

To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential supplemental school aid appropriation for Fiscal Year 2019-2020. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

Aug. 29, 2019

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the bill pass.

Passed in the Senate 22 to 16 (details)

To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential supplemental school aid appropriation for the next fiscal year. The bill contains no appropriations, and its passage is a procedural step to facilitate enacting an eventual agreement on the state budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2019.

Received in the House

Aug. 29, 2019

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

Dec. 4, 2019

Substitute offered by Rep. Shane Hernandez (R-83)

To adopt a version of the bill that contains actual appropriations; see Dec. 4 House-passed version for details.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 104 to 1 (details)

To authorize $114.5 million in additional education-related spending in the 2019-20 state budget, of which $40.1 million is federal money. This spending was (mostly) part of the $947 million that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer used her line-item veto authority to remove from budgets passed by the Republican-controlled legislature. See also Senate Bill 152, which adds another $459.3 million in additional non-education spending, for a total of $573.8 million.<br> The added spending in this bill is spread across the K-12 and Higher Education budgets; highlights include: $35 million in charter school foundation allowance grants, $10 million for school safety grants, $10.5 million for grade school "literacy coaches," $38 million for higher education tuition grants and more.

Received in the Senate

Dec. 5, 2019

Dec. 10, 2019

Passed in the Senate 38 to 0 (details)

Signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Dec. 20, 2019