SCHOOLS' COOPERATIVE ARRANGEMENTS S.B. 1398: FLOOR ANALYSIS
Senate Bill 1398 (as reported without amendment)
Sponsor: Senator Wayne Kuipers
Committee: Education
CONTENT
The bill would amend the Revised School Code to allow an agreement or cooperative arrangement that was entered into under the Code to include cooperatives for the receipt and distribution of food commodities under a Federal program, and specify that an agreement or cooperative arrangement would not have to comply with the Urban Cooperation Act.
The Code permits a general powers school district to enter into agreements or cooperative arrangements with other public and private entities or to join organizations as part of performing the functions of the school district.
Under the bill, such an agreement or cooperative arrangement could include cooperatives to receive, warehouse, allocate, and distribute food commodities to any school district in the State under a U.S. Department of Agriculture food program administered in whole or in part by the State.
Also, under the bill, an agreement or cooperative arrangement would not have to comply with the Urban Cooperation Act, as provided in Section 3 of that Act. (The Urban Cooperation Act allows a public agency of the State to exercise jointly with any other public agency of this or any other state, with a public agency of Canada, or with a public agency of the United States government, any power, privilege, or authority that the agencies share in common and that each might exercise separately. Section 503 specifies that if any provision of that Act conflicts with any other State statute providing for the authorization or performance of joint or cooperative agreements or undertakings between State public agencies or between State public agencies and public agencies of other states or of Canada, the provisions of the other statute control.)
MCL 380.11a Legislative Analyst: Curtis Walker
FISCAL IMPACT
The bill would have no fiscal impact on State or local government.
Date Completed: 9-15-06 Fiscal Analyst: Kathryn Summers-Coty
Analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent. sb1398/0506