Act No. 83

Public Acts of 2002

Approved by the Governor

March 25, 2002

Filed with the Secretary of State

March 26, 2002

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 26, 2002

STATE OF MICHIGAN

91ST LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2002

Introduced by Senator McCotter

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 884

AN ACT to amend 1919 PA 149, entitled "An act to accept the requirements and benefits of an act of the sixty-fourth congress of the United States, approved February 23, 1917, known as the Smith-Hughes act, or Public Act No. 347, relating to appropriations to be made by the federal government to the several states for the support and control of instruction in agriculture, the trades, industries, and home economics, and for the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects; to designate a state board of control for vocational education; to provide for the proper custody and administration of funds received by the state from such appropriations; and to provide for appropriations by the state and by local school authorities to meet the conditions of said act of congress," by amending sections 7 and 8 (MCL 395.7 and 395.8).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 7. The state board of control for vocational education shall provide for the proper inspection of the work in the schools and institutions which operate under the provisions of this act. And upon the approval of the work done and the receipt of satisfactory reports from each school or institution, the state superintendent of public instruction shall certify to the state treasurer the amount of the state and federal money due to each board of education, or board of control of any school maintaining a vocational school or department, and to the board of control of each institution engaged in the training of teachers of vocational subjects according to the provisions of this act. The state treasurer shall, upon the certificate of the superintendent of public instruction, draw his or her warrant for the amount of money due to each school district or institution and payable to the treasurer of the board of education or of the board of control of the institution, and those amounts shall be forwarded to the treasurers.

Sec. 8. The state board of control for vocational education shall estimate the amount of money which should be appropriated by the state to meet federal allotments during each succeeding biennial period, and when the state board of control shall have estimated the amount of money necessary to meet the federal appropriations, they shall report said estimate to the state treasurer, who shall include that amount of money in the state tax levy for each year as reported to the state legislature.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate.

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Approved

Governor.