Request for Advisory Opinion on the Constitutionality of 1979 PA 57

The Legislature has requested an advisory opinion concerning its construction of a provision of the Headlee Amendment.1 The amendment provides in part:

"The state is prohibited from requiring any new or expanded activities by local governments without full state financing, from reducing the proportion of state spending in the form of aid to local governments, or from shifting the tax burden to local government”,2

and:

"The proportion of total state spending paid to all units of Local Government, taken as a group, shall not be reduced below that proportion in effect in fiscal year 1978-79.”3

1979…