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Act 94 of 1979
- THE STATE SCHOOL AID ACT OF 1979 (388.1601 - 388.1896)
| 94‑1979‑I ‑ | ARTICLE I STATE AID TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS, EARLY CHILDHOOD, AND ADULT EDUCATION (388.1601...388.1772) |
| | Section 388.1606b ‑ | Enrollment of nonresident pupil; counting pupil in membership; adjustment of educating district's pupil count. |
| | Section 388.1607 ‑ | Expenditures included in costs for school operating purposes. |
| | Section 388.1611a ‑ | School aid stabilization fund; creation; deposit; expenditure; investment; money remaining at close of fiscal year; shortfall; full funding; transfer of amount. |
| | Section 388.1611f ‑ | Payments to non-plaintiff districts pursuant to Durant v State of Michigan; payments for fiscal year ending September 30, 2008; submission of waiver resolution; creation of obligation or liability; offer of settlement and compromise; payment date; use of payments; form and substance of resolution; early intervening program. |
| | Section 388.1611g ‑ | Allocations; payments to nonplaintiff districts pursuant to Durant v State of Michigan; payments for fiscal years ending September 30, 2013 through September 30, 2015; waiver resolution; offers of settlement and compromise; creation of obligation or liability; calculation of amount; payment date; use of funds; reduction in number of mills levied for debt service; pledge or assignment of payments. |
| | Section 388.1611h ‑ | Amounts to districts for settlement, compromise, and resolution of claims pursuant to Durant v State of Michigan; section not to be construed as admission of liability or waiver of defense. |
| | Section 388.1611t ‑ | Legislative intent to change name of state school aid fund to "comprehensive education fund." |
| | Section 388.1612 ‑ | Appropriations for fiscal year ending September 30, 2014; adjustment of amounts. |
| | Section 388.1613 ‑ | Apportionments and limitations of apportionments; basis; counting pupil membership and professionals. |
| | Section 388.1615 ‑ | Apportionment of deficiency; state aid overpayments to districts; deduction due to adjustment as result of audit or incorrect payment; funding expenditures caused by write-off of prior year accruals; additional appropriation. |
| | Section 388.1617a ‑ | Withholding payment district or intermediate district entitled to receive under act; extent; plan for financing outstanding obligation defaulted upon by district or intermediate district; use of amounts withheld; agreement assigning or pledging payment; effect of appointment of emergency manager; indebtedness of state not created; "trustee of a pooled arrangement" defined; approval or disapproval within 10 days after receipt. |
| | Section 388.1617b ‑ | Amounts to be distributed in installments to districts; electronic files; payments; warrant; adjustments; grant payments; installment schedule; advance release of funds. |
| | Section 388.1618 ‑ | Application of money received under article; determining reasonableness of expenditures; withholding apportionment for violation; availability of budget revisions on website; audit; reports; submission of annual comprehensive financial data; Michigan public school accounting manual chart of accounts; retention of property by public school academy; failure to comply with subsections (4), (5), (6), and (7); report online learning per-pupil costs; report to legislature. |
| | Section 388.1618a ‑ | Grant funds to be expended by end of school year; effect of funds not expended; return of unexpended funds. |
| | Section 388.1618b ‑ | Property of public school academy to be transferred to this state. |
| | Section 388.1618c ‑ | Contract between public school academy, achievement authority, or achievement school and third party. |
| | Section 388.1619 ‑ | Compliance with reporting requirements specified in state and federal law; report of graduation and dropout rates; educational personnel; information relating to safety practices and criminal incidents; failure to comply with certain requirements; list of schools or districts failing to make adequate yearly progress; appeal of determination; publication of list; legislative intent to implement statewide standard reporting requirements. |
| | Section 388.1620 ‑ | Foundation allowance; calculations allocations; adjustments; definitions. |
| | Section 388.1620d ‑ | Requirements for final determination under MCL 388.1620 and former section 388.1620a. |
| | Section 388.1621b ‑ | Tuition and fee support for pupil attending postsecondary institution. |
| | Section 388.1622a ‑ | Allocation for 2011-2012 and 2012-2013; payments to districts and qualifying public school academies; definitions. |
| | Section 388.1622b ‑ | Allocations for 2011-2012 and 2012-2013; discretionary nonmandated payments; duties of district; purchase of software; payments for litigation costs; allegation of unfunded constitutional requirement; escrowed funds as work project; purpose; determination; review of claim by local claims review board; removal to court of appeals; payment provisions; "title XIX" defined; report to legislature identifying amount of savings. |
| | Section 388.1622f ‑ | Incentive payments to districts meeting best practices; definitions; dashboard or report card; submission of false information; allocation of unexpended amounts. |
| | Section 388.1622g ‑ | Competitive assistance grants to districts and intermediate districts. |
| | Section 388.1622i ‑ | Technology infrastructure grants to districts or intermediate districts. |
| | Section 388.1623d ‑ | Repealed. 1994, Act 360, Eff. June 30, 1995;—1995, Act 130, Eff. Oct. 1, 1995. |
| | Section 388.1624 ‑ | Allocations for 2012-2013; payments for educating students assigned by court or department of human services; definitions; funding for department-approved on-grounds educational program; special education pupils funded under MCL 388.1653a. |
| | Section 388.1624a ‑ | Allocations for 2012-2013; payments to intermediate districts for pupils placed in juvenile justice service facilities. |
| | Section 388.1624b ‑ | Parents or legal guardian residing in different districts; enrollment of child. |
| | Section 388.1624c ‑ | Allocations for 2012-2013; payments to districts for pupils enrolled in youth challenge program. |
| | Section 388.1625 ‑ | Enrollment of pupil in district or intermediate district after pupil membership count day; report of information to department; duties of department; changes in calculation of state school aid under subsection (2); notice; information to be provided to department; "educating district or intermediate district" defined. |
| | Section 388.1626 ‑ | Receipt or reduction of funds by district or intermediate district. |
| | Section 388.1626a ‑ | Reimbursements to districts and intermediate districts under MCL 125.2692; time of allocations; reimbursement to public libraries. |
| | Section 388.1626b ‑ | Payments in lieu of tax obligation; prorated payments to districts, intermediate districts, and community college districts. |
| | Section 388.1631a ‑ | Funding to eligible districts, public school academies, and education achievement system; additional allowance; number of pupils meeting criteria for free breakfast, lunch, or milk; early intervening program; "at-risk pupil" defined; anti-bullying or crisis intervention program. |
| | Section 388.1632d ‑ | Great start readiness programs; competitive grant payments; evaluation; comprehensive part-day, school-day, or GSRP/head start blended programs; application for funding; form and manner; contract with for-profit or nonprofit preschool center providers; report; definitions; tuition rate sliding scale; transfer of funding. |
| | Section 388.1632g ‑ | Kindergarten entry status assessment; improvement of quality ratings of early childhood providers; allocations. |
| | Section 388.1632p ‑ | Early childhood funding; block grants; report; carrying over unexpended funds. |
| | Section 388.1639 ‑ | Receipt of funds under MCL 388.1632d; preapplication; final application for approval; distribution in decreasing order of concentration of eligible children; priority in funding; supplementary day care; additional eligible children. |
| | Section 388.1651a ‑ | Allocations for reimbursement to districts and intermediate districts for special education programs, services, and personnel, certain net tuition payments, and programs for pupils eligible for special education programs; allocation of state and federal funds; reimbursement; total approved costs; adjustments; rights, benefits, and tenure of transferred personnel; refund; foundation allowance; order of expenditures; responsibility for added costs for pupil enrolled in public school academy which is outside intermediate school district where pupil resides. |
| | Section 388.1651c ‑ | Reimbursement for percentage of special education and special education transportation costs. |
| | Section 388.1651d ‑ | Federally funded special education programs; distribution; payment schedule; "DED-OSERS" defined. |
| | Section 388.1652 ‑ | Special education programs and services; reimbursement; limitation. |
| | Section 388.1653a ‑ | Special education programs and services; reimbursement of total approved costs; limitation; costs of transportation; allocation. |
| | Section 388.1654 ‑ | Intermediate district to receive amount for pupil attending Michigan schools for the deaf and blind. |
| | Section 388.1656 ‑ | Definitions; reimbursement to intermediate districts levying millages for special education; limitation; distribution plan; computation; reimbursement equal to 2011-2012. |
| | Section 388.1661a ‑ | Career and technical education programs; added cost; reimbursement. |
| | Section 388.1662 ‑ | Definitions; vocational-technical education programs; limitation; allocation; distribution; reimbursement equal to 2011-2012. |
| | Section 388.1674 ‑ | School bus driver safety instruction; cost of instruction and driver compensation; nonspecial education auxiliary services transportation; inspection costs. |
| | Section 388.1681 ‑ | Allocations to intermediate districts; amounts; expanded professional development opportunities for teachers; consolidated, annexed, or attached districts; report of adjustment and amount of estimated amount of increase; duties of intermediate district; best practices incentive payment. |
| | Section 388.1691a ‑ | Cessation of pilot intermediate district schools of choice program; enrollment of nonresident pupil in district. |
| | Section 388.1691c ‑ | Transfer student; eligibility to participate in interscholastic athletic competition. |
| | Section 388.1693 ‑ | Allocation to library of Michigan; Michigan electronic library in public schools and public libraries. |
| | Section 388.1695 ‑ | Professional development for principals and assistant principals. |
| | Section 388.1698 ‑ | Michigan virtual university; Michigan virtual school; pilot study of new performance-based funding model; online course offerings; home-schooled or nonpublic school student; report; definitions. |
| | Section 388.1701 ‑ | Eligibility to receive state aid; submission of number of pupils enrolled and in regular daily attendance; certification of data; noncompliance; withholding state aid; falsification; pupil instruction; minimum number of hours or days; guidelines; waiver; counting number of hours of qualifying teacher professional development; "qualifying professional development" defined; applicability of subsections (3) and (8) to cyber school or dropout recovery program; "eligible pupil" defined; review of waiver standards. |
| | Section 388.1701a ‑ | Enrollment of individual who has dropped out of another district; evidence. |
| | Section 388.1702 ‑ | Deficit budget or operating deficit prohibited; release of withheld state aid payments; report; amount of permissible deficit; monthly monitoring report; plan to eliminate deficit; "deficit fund balance" defined. |
| | Section 388.1704 ‑ | Compliance with revised school code and federal no child left behind act of 2001; inclusion of item analysis in MEAP results; distribution of federal funds; payment schedule determined by department; definitions. |
| | Section 388.1705 ‑ | Counting nonresident pupils in membership; application for enrollment; procedures. |
| | Section 388.1705b ‑ | Intermediate district operating under pilot schools of choice program. |
| | Section 388.1705c ‑ | Enrollment by nonresident applicants residing in district located in a contiguous intermediate district. |
| | Section 388.1709 ‑ | Providing appropriate instructional services to pupil requiring hospitalization or confinement at home. |
| | Section 388.1718 ‑ | Conditions for allotment or payment; failure to pay full amount; remittance; deduction from school aid. |
| | Section 388.1722 ‑ | Deducting valuation of property from valuation of district; condition; credit as lien; payment of school aid fund. |
| | Section 388.1724 ‑ | Reducing valuation of district when taxes paid under certain conditions; credits as lien against district; payment to school aid fund; implementation of subsection (2). |
| | Section 388.1747a ‑ | Payments to participating districts; use; purpose; "participating district" defined. |
| | Section 388.1747b ‑ | MPSERS retirement obligation reform reserve fund; creation; investment; interest and earnings; workgroup. |
| | Section 388.1747c ‑ | Allocation to Michigan public school employees' retirement system under MCL 38.1341. |
| | Section 388.1752 ‑ | Reports for determination of allocation of funds; information; reports of educational progress. |
| | Section 388.1752a ‑ | Costs related to state-mandated collection, maintenance, and reporting of data; payments. |
| | Section 388.1764 ‑ | Forfeiture of amount equal to expenditure for cars or chauffeurs. |
| | Section 388.1764a ‑ | Receipt by school administrator of monetary payment in lieu of unused vacation or personal leave. |
| | Section 388.1764d ‑ | Adoption, implementation, or issuance of certain policies, practices, or statements; prohibition. |
| | Section 388.1765 ‑ | Reimbursement by entity in contractual shared time agreement. |
| | Section 388.1766 ‑ | Dispensing or distributing family planning or drug or device, dispensing prescriptions for family planning drug, or making referrals for abortion; forfeiture. |
| | Section 388.1766a ‑ | Instruction in reproductive health or other sex education; complaint process. |
| | Section 388.1766b ‑ | Minor enrolled in nonpublic school or home school; dual enrollment; state school aid; requirements; "eligible other district" defined; minor as part-time pupil; reply by district. |
| | Section 388.1766d ‑ | Cyber school; salary or compensation information; nondisclosure agreement prohibited. |
| | Section 388.1766e ‑ | Construction of new building, or addition to or repair or renovation of existing building; use of competitive bid process. |
| | Section 388.1767 ‑ | Plan for compliance with MCL 333.9209 and 380.1177; report of immunization status; districts subject to subsection (4); failure to comply with section; pupil relocated in state due to natural disaster. |
| | Section 388.1769a ‑ | Michigan schools for the deaf and blind; information about residential programs; interference with right or ability prohibited; educational placement options. |
| | Section 388.1769b ‑ | Contract in which board member has conflict of interest; abstention from voting. |
| | Section 388.1771 ‑ | Repeal of MCL 388.1401 to 388.1572; certain references considered references to former act. |
| 94‑1979‑II ‑ | ARTICLE II STATE AID TO COMMUNITY COLLEGES (388.1801...388.1830) |
| | Section 388.1801a ‑ | Appropriations for fiscal year ending September 30, 2014; adjustment of amounts. |
| | Section 388.1804 ‑ | Goods or services provided by Michigan businesses; preference. |
| | Section 388.1807 ‑ | Payment of employer's contribution to Michigan public school employees' retirement system; payment to more than 1 fund prohibited. |
| | Section 388.1808 ‑ | Self-liquidating projects; compliance with JCOS requirements. |
| | Section 388.1809 ‑ | Information to be available on website; icon badge; data items; determination of compliance with section; report. |
| | Section 388.1810 ‑ | Collaboration and cooperation with 4-year universities, local employers, and students. |
| | Section 388.1810a ‑ | Transferability of core college courses between community colleges and public universities; committee; creation; composition; project status reports. |
| | Section 388.1818 ‑ | Credit hours of student incarcerated in Michigan penal institution; exclusion from enrollment data. |
| | Section 388.1819 ‑ | Statewide P-20 education longitudinal data system; inclusion of information from each community college. |
| | Section 388.1826 ‑ | Associate degrees and certificates; report to workforce development agency. |
| | Section 388.1828 ‑ | Communication of employee with member of legislature or staff. |
| | Section 388.1829 ‑ | Applicant as a veteran, active member of military, national guard or military reserves, or spouse; question; "veteran" defined. |
| | Section 388.1830 ‑ | Recommendations and performance measures developed by performance indicators task force; review and implementation; intent of legislature; offset of retirement contributions; resolution; categories of best practices. |
| 94‑1979‑III ‑ | ARTICLE III STATE AID FOR UNIVERSITIES AND STUDENT FINANCIAL AID (388.1836...388.1894) |
| | Section 388.1836a ‑ | Appropriations for fiscal year ending September 30, 2014; intent of legislature. |
| | Section 388.1841 ‑ | Payments; monthly installments; HEIDI data and associated financial and program information. |
| | Section 388.1844 ‑ | Statewide P-20 education longitudinal data system; development, operation, and maintenance. |
| | Section 388.1845 ‑ | Information to be available on website; "best practice" measures; icon badge; data items; determination of compliance with section. |
| | Section 388.1846 ‑ | Michigan public school employees' retirement system reimbursement; allocation to participating public university; definition. |
| | Section 388.1853 ‑ | Audit of enrollments, degrees, and awards at independent colleges and universities. |
| | Section 388.1854 ‑ | State competitive scholarship, tuition incentive, and tuition grant programs; payments. |
| | Section 388.1863a ‑ | Strategic growth initiative for Michigan food and agriculture industry; report. |
| | Section 388.1865 ‑ | Public university tuition restraint incentives; payment conditions; definitions; determination of allocation; uniform reporting requirements; additional information. |
| | Section 388.1865a ‑ | Performance funding; payments; unpaid amounts; report; recertification that policies fully implemented. |
| | Section 388.1867 ‑ | Amount of tuition and fees; submission as part of HEIDI data. |
| | Section 388.1869 ‑ | Payment to Saginaw Chippewa tribal college; costs of waiving tuition for North American Indians. |
| | Section 388.1870 ‑ | Payment to Bay Mills community college; costs of waiving tuition for North American Indians. |
| | Section 388.1873 ‑ | Religious beliefs of students enrolled in accredited counseling degree programs; accommodation. |
| | Section 388.1874 ‑ | Organizations conducting human embryonic stem cell derivation; report of information to director of department of community health. |
| | Section 388.1874a ‑ | Health insurance or fringe benefits for adult coresident of employee not married or dependent; prohibition; report; legislative intent. |
| | Section 388.1875 ‑ | Veterans; educational assistance; duties of public university; definition. |
| | Section 388.1875a ‑ | Construction or maintenance of self-liquidating project; finance requirements. |
| | Section 388.1876 ‑ | Martin Luther King, Jr. – Cesar Chavez – Rosa Parks future faculty program. |
| | Section 388.1877 ‑ | Martin Luther King, Jr. – Cesar Chavez – Rosa Parks college day program. |
| | Section 388.1878 ‑ | Martin Luther King, Jr. – Cesar Chavez – Rosa Parks select student support services program. |
| | Section 388.1879 ‑ | Martin Luther King, Jr. – Cesar Chavez – Rosa Parks college/university partnership program. |
| | Section 388.1880 ‑ | Martin Luther King, Jr. – Cesar Chavez – Rosa Parks visiting professors program. |
| | Section 388.1881 ‑ | Martin Luther King, Jr. – Cesar Chavez – Rosa Parks initiative for Morris Hood, Jr. educator development program. |
| | Section 388.1882 ‑ | Institutions receiving funds under MCL 388.1878, 388.1879, or 388.1881; notification of expenditure of funds. |
| | Section 388.1885 ‑ | Transfer of students from community colleges to public universities; encouragement; facilitation. |
| | Section 388.1889 ‑ | Auditor general; duties; "distance learning instruction" defined. |
| 94‑1979‑IV ‑ | ARTICLE IV GENERAL PROVISIONS (388.1896...388.1896) |
