School aid: other; requirements for districts to receive weighted funding; provide for, the official text

Act No. 22

Public Acts of 2026

Approved by the Governor

July 21, 2026

Filed with the Secretary of State

July 21, 2026

EFFECTIVE
DATE: July 21, 2026

state of michigan

103rd Legislature

Regular session of 2026

Introduced by Senator Camilleri

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 903

AN ACT to amend 1976 PA 451,
entitled “An act to provide a system of public instruction and elementary and
secondary schools; to revise, consolidate, and clarify the laws relating to
elementary and secondary education; to provide for the organization,
regulation, and maintenance of schools, school districts, public school
academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to
prescribe rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school districts,
public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school
entities; to provide for the regulation of school teachers and certain other
school employees; to provide for school elections and to prescribe powers and
duties with respect thereto; to provide for the levy and collection of taxes;
to provide for the borrowing of money and issuance of bonds and other evidences
of indebtedness; to establish a fund and provide for expenditures from that
fund; to make appropriations for certain purposes; to provide for and prescribe
the powers and duties of certain state departments, the state board of
education, and certain other boards and officials; to provide for licensure of
boarding schools; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,”
(MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1280h.

The People of the State of
Michigan enact:

Sec.
1280h. (1) The
board of a school district or board of directors of a public school academy
that receives a weighted foundation payment under section 22b of the state
school aid act of 1979, MCL 388.1622b, must do all of the following:

(a) Address student achievement and success, including, but
not limited to, literacy and mathematics.

(b) Provide direct English language development instruction
to English language learners.

(c) Provide instruction to at-risk pupils that is consistent
with the requirements under section 1280f.

(d) Administer to English language learners the English
language proficiency assessment known as the “WIDA ACCESS for English language
learners” or the “WIDA Alternate ACCESS”.

(e) Agree to meet or exceed the minimum number of minutes per
week, as determined by the department under subsection (2), that the school
district or public school academy provides direct English language development
instruction.

(f) Implement a multi-tiered system of supports that is an
evidence-based framework that uses data-driven problem solving to integrate
academic and behavioral instruction and that uses intervention delivered to all
pupils in varying intensities based on pupil needs. The multi-tiered system of
supports must be implemented in grades K to 12, or, if the school district or
public school academy does not operate all of grades K to 12, for all of the
grades it operates. The multi-tiered system of supports described in this
subdivision must provide at least all of the following essential components:

(i) Team-based leadership.

(ii) A tiered delivery system.

(iii) Selection and implementation of
instruction, interventions, and supports.

(iv) A comprehensive screening and assessment
system.

(v) Continuous data-based decision making.

(g) Support pupil needs for pupils counted toward the school
district’s or public school academy’s weighted pupil membership, including, but
not limited to, items identified in a district’s Michigan Integrated Continuous
Improvement Process (MICIP) plan. An amount not to exceed 2% of the amount
received from weighted foundation payments under section 22b of the state
school aid act of 1979, MCL 388.1622b, may be used to support administrative
costs related to complying with this section. Administrative costs include, but
are not limited to, central office salaries and benefits, business and fiscal
services, and school administrative staff and expenses, and do not include
costs associated with direct instructional staff working with pupils counted
toward the weighted pupil membership.

(h) Provide information to the department, in a form and
manner determined by the department, necessary for the department to monitor
programs and services described in this section for compliance with the
requirements of this section, and to ensure the multi-tiered system of supports
and English language learner programs are implemented with fidelity.

(i) Allow access for the department or the department’s
designee to audit all records related to the program for which it receives
those funds. The district shall reimburse this state for all disallowances
found in any audit.

(j) Communicate the following information to parents and
legal guardians at least annually, as applicable for grades offered by the
school district or public school academy:

(i) Literacy-related results for the school
district or public school academy, including multiyear trend data, from the
grade 3 Michigan student test of educational progress (M-STEP), the grade 7
Michigan student test of educational progress (M-STEP), and the SAT for pupils
who are economically disadvantaged or English language learners. The school
district or public school academy shall ensure that information described in
this subparagraph is reported in a manner that safeguards pupil privacy.

(ii) Information detailing the amount of
funding received from weighted foundation payments under section 22b of the
state school aid act of 1979, MCL 388.1622b, how the school district or public
school academy distributed that funding, and what evidence-based interventions
were implemented with that funding. The information reported under this
subparagraph must include a method, including contact information, for parents
or legal guardians to provide feedback on the use of the funding as well as to
seek more information about services and interventions available for their
children.

(2) The department shall establish English language learner
program models that establish a minimum number of minutes per week that school
districts and public school academies must provide direct English language
development instruction for pupils according to the pupil’s proficiency levels.
The program models described in this subsection must be compliant with federal
requirements related to English language learner program services.

(3) The department shall monitor school districts and public
school academies for compliance with this section and may require school
districts and public school academies to provide any information to the
department, in a form and manner determined by the department, necessary to
fulfill this requirement.

(4) As used in this section:

(a) “At-risk pupil” means a pupil in grades pre-K to 12 for
whom the district has documentation that the pupil meets any of the following
criteria:

(i) The pupil is economically disadvantaged.

(ii) The pupil is an English language
learner.

(iii) The pupil is chronically absent as
defined by and reported to the center for educational performance and
information created under section 94a of the state school aid act of 1979, MCL
388.1694a.

(iv) The pupil is a victim of child abuse or
neglect.

(v) The pupil is a pregnant teenager or
teenage parent.

(vi) The pupil has a family history of school
failure, incarceration, or substance abuse.

(vii) The pupil is an immigrant who has
immigrated within the immediately preceding 3 years.

(viii) The pupil did not complete high school
in 4 years and is still continuing in school as identified in the Michigan
cohort graduation and dropout report.

(ix) For pupils for whom the results of the
state summative assessment have been received, is a pupil who did not achieve
proficiency on the English language arts, mathematics, science, or social
studies content area assessment.

(x) Is a pupil who is at risk of not meeting
the school district’s or public school academy’s core academic curricular
objectives in English language arts or mathematics, as demonstrated on local
assessments.

(b) “English language learner” and “weighted pupil membership”
mean those terms as defined in section 6 of the state school aid act of 1979,
MCL 388.1606.

This act is ordered to take
immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of
Representatives

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor