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HB 5503

Appropriations: school aid; fiscal year 2024-2025 appropriations for K-12 school aid; provide for. Amends secs. 11 & 31aa of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1611 & 388.1631aa) & adds 97h.

2023-2024 Regular Session Introduced by Regina Weiss and 1 co-sponsor

Provides $126 million in one-time SAF funds for 2024–25 to expand mental health and school safety grants and establish a student tip line for reporting improperly stored firearms.

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Bill Summary · HB 5503

HB 5503 — School Aid Supplemental (Public Act 148 of 2024)

Status & timeline
- Enacted as Public Act 148 of 2024; approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State October 10, 2024. Effective date: sine die (91st day after final adjournment of the 2024 Regular Session).
- Sponsors / Origin: Introduced in the House by Rep. Regina Weiss (bill originated February 2024; went through House, Senate, conference committee, and was enacted).

Purpose
- Provides supplemental appropriations to the State School Aid Act for FY 2024–25 to expand one‑time funding for school mental‑health and safety activities and to establish a student tip line for reporting improperly stored firearms accessible to minors.

Key provisions
1. Supplemental appropriations (FY 2024–25)
- Adds $126.0 million from the School Aid Fund (SAF) in supplemental funding.
- $125.0 million SAF — one‑time per‑pupil Mental Health & School Safety Grants (increases the total allocated under section 31aa to $150.0 million SAF for 2024–25 when combined with prior allocations).
- $1.0 million SAF — one‑time to support a tip line for students to anonymously report improperly stored firearms accessible to a minor (new section 97h; ISD partners with MDE to support).

  1. Per‑pupil Mental Health & School Safety Grant (Sec. 31aa)

    • Expands allowable uses broadly for activities to improve student mental health and safety, including but not limited to:
      • Hiring/contracting mental‑health support staff (psychologists, counselors, nurses), behavioral health coordinators, and school resource officers;
      • Mental‑health screening tools, training (threat assessment, crisis response), consultation with clinicians, and evidence‑based programming;
      • Safety infrastructure (cameras, hardened vestibules, buzzer systems, firearm‑detection software) and IT platforms for behavioral health or safety management.
    • Includes legislative intent that one‑time funds used to hire staff imply districts assume ongoing costs for those positions after the current fiscal year; for 2025–26 the Legislature intends the SAF allocation for this purpose to be reduced to $25.0 million and that ongoing payments for staff should not be continued with those funds.

  2. School safety tip line (New Sec. 97h)

    • $1.0 million SAF to an ISD partnering with MDE to operate an anonymous student tip line for improperly stored firearms accessible to minors.
    • MDE must develop and distribute educational materials about improperly stored firearms and reporting.

Reporting and oversight
- The Department of Education must transmit an annual report (by August 1) on the number of districts using school resource officers that received funds under the section.

Who is affected
- Public school districts, intermediate school districts (ISDs), public school academies, nonpublic schools that opt in, and the Michigan Schools for the Deaf and Blind (eligible to receive per‑pupil grants if they opt in). State agencies (MDE, partnering ISD) are assigned implementation and reporting duties.

Fiscal impact
- Total FY 2024–25 supplemental increase: $126.0 million (restricted SAF). The enacted language raises the mental‑health/safety allocation to $150.0 million SAF for 2024–25 (including prior appropriations) and $1.5 million GF was also allocated in prior action for the program.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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