REGIONAL ENHANCEMENT MILLAGE

BALLOT LANGUAGE

House Bill 5626 as introduced

Sponsor:  Rep. Jeffrey R. Noble

Committee:  Education Reform

Complete to 3-7-18

SUMMARY:

House Bill 5626 would amend the General Property Tax Act by revising the way school districts and other constituent districts would be described on a millage ballot question. This adjustment would account for the changes instituted by Public Act 23 of 2018 (Senate Bill 574),[1] which will take effect May 15, 2018. 

Public Act 23 provides that public school academies (PSAs, or charter schools) and intermediate school districts (ISDs) themselves, for certain pupils, are eligible to receive a portion of funds obtained through a regional enhancement property tax levied by an ISD, for a regional enhancement millage approved after the bill takes effect.

Previously, these millages could be approved and levied by an ISD and used only for “traditional” public schools within the ISD. Public Act 23 expanded the definition of constituent districts, to which millages could be disbursed, to include PSAs and cyber schools—as long as they met certain location and membership count requirements—and ISDs themselves.

The bill would amend the Act so that school districts and constituent districts to which a millage would be disbursed could be disclosed on the ballot collectively as “public schools.”

MCL 211.24f

FISCAL IMPACT:

The bill would have no fiscal impact on state or local units of government.

                                                                                        Legislative Analyst:   Jenny McInerney

                                                                                               Fiscal Analysts:   Bethany Wicksall

                                                                                                                           Samuel Christensen

■ This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan House Fiscal Agency staff for use by House members in their deliberations, and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.

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