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HB 4199

Education: financing; funding for mobile panic alert system in schools; provide for. Amends sec. 11 of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1611) & adds sec. 97n. TIE BAR WITH: HB 4198'25

2025-2026 Regular Session Introduced by Joe Aragona and 6 co-sponsors

HB 4199 provides a one-time $6.7 million General Fund allocation to implement mobile panic alert systems in every Michigan public and nonpublic school.

bill electronically reproduced 03/11/2025
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Bill Summary · HB 4199

Summary — HB 4199 (103rd Legislature, 2025) — Education financing; mobile panic alert systems

Status: Introduced March 10–11, 2025. Referred to Committee on Education and Workforce. Tie-bar: HB 4198 (2025).
Note: The source document contained material from another state’s (Illinois) HB 4199; this summary focuses on the Michigan measure that amends the State School Aid Act of 1979.

Main purpose

HB 4199 amends Michigan’s State School Aid Act of 1979 (by amending section 11 and adding section 97n) to: (1) set certain 2024–2025 school finance appropriations and (2) allocate funding specifically to implement a mobile panic alert system in each public and nonpublic school, as required by MCL 380.1308c (revised school code).

Key provisions and changes

  • Section 11 (appropriations for fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2025):

    • Appropriates $17,769,551,300 from the State School Aid Fund for public schools and related education purposes.
    • Appropriates $78,830,600 (text also shows $85,530,600) from the General Fund; appropriations may include several other specified funds (examples listed in the bill): up to $41,000,000 from the Community District Education Trust Fund; up to $125,000,000 from the School Transportation Fund; up to $71,000,000 from the Enrollment Stabilization Fund; up to $30,000,000 from the School Meals Reserve Fund; up to $18,000,000 from the Great Start Readiness Program Reserve; up to $334,100,000 from the MPSERS retirement obligation reform reserve; up to $30,000,000 from the Educator Fellowship Public Provider Fund. All available federal funds are appropriated as allocated in the article.
    • General fund money must be expended for the article’s purposes before expending State School Aid Fund money. Unspent general fund allocations at fiscal year-end transfer to the School Aid Stabilization Fund.

  • New Section 97n — Mobile panic alert funding:

    • Allocates $6,700,000 from the General Fund (from monies appropriated in section 11) for 2024–2025 to public and nonpublic schools to implement a mobile panic alert system in each school as required by MCL 380.1308c.
    • The $6.7 million is designated as a “work project” appropriation; unexpended funds for 2024–2025 carry forward into 2025–2026.
    • Estimated work project completion date: September 30, 2027.

  • Contingency / tie-bar:

    • The act does not take effect unless the companion bill (Senate Bill No. ____ / House Bill No. 4198 of the 103rd Legislature) is enacted. (Tie-bar with HB 4198 (2025).)

Who is affected

  • Public school districts, intermediate school districts, and public school academies (charter schools) across Michigan — and nonpublic (private) schools — which are to receive funding and support to implement the mobile panic alert systems required under state law.
  • State budgeting/education administration entities responsible for distributing and overseeing the work project appropriation.

Timeline / procedural notes

  • Appropriation covers fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2025; funds are a work project with carryforward into 2025–2026.
  • Estimated completion of the implementation project: Sept. 30, 2027.
  • The bill is contingent on passage of the tied bill (HB 4198 / SB ___).

If enacted, HB 4199 provides a targeted one-time appropriation to help Michigan schools comply with the statutory requirement to deploy mobile panic alert systems, while also specifying the broader 2024–25 school aid funding structure and certain fiscal rules for the appropriations.

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

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