2022 House Bill 5795

Appropriations: K-12 School Aid budget

Introduced in the House

Feb. 23, 2022

Introduced by Rep. Brad Paquette (R-78)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for a Fiscal Year 2022-2023 K-12 School Aid budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 28, 2022

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-3) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

May 5, 2022

Amendment offered by Rep. Thomas Albert (R-86)

To replace the previous version of the bill with one that represents the most recent deliberations of the appropriations committee.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Amos O’Neal (D-95)

To establish a certain limit on the amount of a school's spending that goes to career and technical education.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Terry Sabo (D-92)

To revise various conditions on spending money for career and technical education programs.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Cynthia Neeley (D-34)

To give $1.5 billion in bonuses to public school employees.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Cynthia Neeley (D-34)

To increase the "target foundation allowance" from $9,000 per pupil to $9,135, and also increase spending in a number of other line items.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-3)

To authorize giving the Detroit school district $94 million for literacy-related programs and initiatives.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Regina Weiss (D-27)

To strip out a section of this appropriations bill that makes school district acceptance of state funding conditional on their not allowing boys from trying out for or competing on a girls', women's, or female team in an interscholastic athletic activity.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Passed in the House 65 to 38 (details)

To appropriate $20.102 billion for K-12 public schools in the 2022-23 fiscal year, of which $3.071 billion is federal money. The budget would raise the per-pupil state target "foundation allowance" by 3.4% to $9,000.

Received in the Senate

May 10, 2022

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

May 11, 2022

Passed in the Senate 21 to 12 (details)

To send the bill back to the House stripped of all actual appropriations except for $100 “placeholders," as part of a process to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

Received in the House

May 11, 2022

May 19, 2022

Failed in the House 0 to 106 (details)