All Roll Calls
Yes: 157 • No: 17
MichiganSB 05422025-2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET
Military affairs: other; tuition assistance for Michigan National Guard members; modify. Amends secs. 3 & 4 of 2014 PA 259 (MCL 32.433 & 32.434). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0540'25, HB 4962'25Last Action: ASSIGNED PA 0038'25 WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT
Sponsored By: Veronica Klinefelt (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
Military affairs: otherHigher education: financial aid
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
Michigan Guard families may share tuition help
Michigan’s Adjutant General may set a policy letting eligible Guard members share tuition help with family members. The law allows sharing with a lawfully married spouse or a dependent child, stepchild, or legally adopted child. A child must have finished high school, earned an equivalent certificate, or turned 18. Children must use the help before turning 26. Sharing is not automatic: the policy must be established, and the Guard member’s program requirements still apply.
Guard tuition help comes with repayment rules
Eligible Michigan Guard members can apply before enrollment or seek reimbursement for tuition paid during the current academic year. Reimbursement requires enrollment at an eligible school, no advance assistance received, and enough money in the member benefits fund. Covered studies include vocational or technical training, certificates, and a first associate, bachelor’s, or master’s degree. The Adjutant General sets the yearly assistance amount for all eligible recipients and controls payment timing and recipient. Recipients must show attendance and completion, with at least a 2.0 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale where applicable. Those who do not finish must repay an amount set by the Adjutant General, who decides cases involving deployment that prevented completion.
Guard tuition funding shifts with spending limits
The law requires transferring uncommitted tuition-assistance money remaining on September 30, 2025, to the Michigan National Guard member benefits fund. The transfer amount depends on the remaining balance; no dollar amount is set. The tuition assistance fund has a $15 million cap, with excess money going to the state’s general fund. Apart from that cap and required transfer, year-end balances stay in the tuition fund. The Adjutant General can spend tuition-fund money on assistance or reimbursement only with legislative spending approval.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Veronica Klinefelt
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 12/2/2025
ROLL CALL:
Yes: 34 • No: 3
House vote • 11/13/2025
passed; given immediate effect
Yes: 97 • No: 4 • Other: 9
Senate vote • 9/25/2025
PASSED
Yes: 26 • No: 10 • Other: 1
Actions Timeline
ASSIGNED PA 0038'25 WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT
12/10/2025SenateFILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE 12/9/2025 3:00 PM
12/10/2025SenateAPPROVED BY GOVERNOR 12/9/2025 2:14 PM
12/10/2025SenatePRESENTED TO GOVERNOR 12/4/2025 10:08 AM
12/9/2025SenateORDERED ENROLLED
12/2/2025SenateFULL TITLE AGREED TO
12/2/2025SenateGIVEN IMMEDIATE EFFECT
12/2/2025SenateROLL CALL: ROLL CALL # 305 YEAS 34 NAYS 3 EXCUSED 0 NOT VOTING 0
12/2/2025SenateHOUSE SUBSTITUTE (H-2) CONCURRED IN
12/2/2025SenateRULES SUSPENDED FOR IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION
12/2/2025SenatePASSED BY HOUSE WITH SUBSTITUTE (H-2) WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT
12/2/2025Housereturned to Senate
11/13/2025Houseinserted full title
11/13/2025Housepassed; given immediate effect Roll Call #314 Yeas 97 Nays 4 Excused 0 Not Voting 9
11/13/2025Houseread a third time
11/13/2025Houseplaced on immediate passage
11/13/2025Houseplaced on third reading
11/13/2025Housesubstitute (H-2) adopted
11/13/2025Houseread a second time
11/13/2025Housereferred to second reading
11/12/2025Housereported with recommendation with substitute (H-2)
11/12/2025Housereferred to Committee on Appropriations
9/26/2025Houseread a first time
9/26/2025Housereceived on 09/25/2025
9/25/2025HousePASSED ROLL CALL # 243 YEAS 26 NAYS 10 EXCUSED 1 NOT VOTING 0
9/25/2025Senate
Bill Text
Public Act
12/9/2025
As Passed by the Senate
12/2/2025
Senate Concurred
12/2/2025
As Passed by the House
11/13/2025
Introduced
9/11/2025
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