January 15, 2015, Introduced by Reps. Hughes, Price and Rendon and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state
constitution of 1963, by amending section 7 of article VIII, to
require each public community and junior college to consider active
duty members and honorably discharged veterans of the armed forces
as residents of that college's district for determining their
tuition rates.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
state of Michigan, That the following amendment to the state
constitution of 1963, to require each public community and junior
college to consider active duty members and honorably discharged
veterans of the armed forces as residents of that college's
district for determining their tuition rates, is proposed, agreed
to, and submitted to the people of the state:
ARTICLE VIII
Sec. 7. (1) The legislature shall provide by law for the
establishment and financial support of public community and junior
colleges which shall be supervised and controlled by locally
elected boards.
(2) The legislature shall provide by law for a state board for
public community and junior colleges which shall advise the state
board of education concerning general supervision and planning for
such
public community and junior colleges and requests for annual
appropriations for their support. The board shall consist of eight
members who shall hold office for terms of eight years, not more
than two of which shall expire in the same year, and who shall be
appointed by the state board of education. Vacancies shall be
filled in like manner. The superintendent of public instruction
shall
be ex-officio ex officio a member of this board without the
right to vote.
(3) The board of a public community or junior college
described in subsection (1) shall consider a student enrolled in
that institution a resident of that college's district for
determining his or her tuition rates if the student is an active
duty member or an honorably discharged veteran of the armed forces
of the United States.
Resolved further, That the foregoing amendment shall be
submitted to the people of the state at the next general election
in the manner provided by law.